Sarah Rudd

Sarah Rudd is one of the early pioneers of sports analytics applied to soccer.[1] In 2011, Rudd developed a method, based on Markov chains, for evaluating the performance of players.[2] This method was later adopted by several other companies, academics and bloggers to evaluate actions from soccer event data.[3]

Soon after presenting her work, Rudd worked for startup StatsDNA which was acquired by Arsenal FC in 2013.[4] She is currently head of Analytics and Software Development at the Arsenal FC Data Analytics group. Her work is reported to have been highly influential within the club.[5]

  1. ^ Sumpter, David (2016). Soccermatics. Bloomsbury.
  2. ^ Rudd, Sarah (2011). "A framework for tactical analysis and individual offensive production assessment in soccer using Markov chains". New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports.
  3. ^ Sumpter, David (18 September 2019). "Soccermatics: could a Premier League team one day be managed by a mathematician?". Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  4. ^ Andrew Allen (2017-06-13). "VIDEO: Arsenal-owned StatDNA on why football data matters". Arseblog News - the Arsenal news site. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  5. ^ Smith, Rory (2017-02-03). "How Arsenal and Arsène Wenger Bought Into Analytics". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-09.