Football analytics, life at The Athletic and Fantasy Football with Tom Worville

There is a full squad to select from in the latest episode of the View From The Byline as Alex Brinton, Matt Lee and Pete Trifunovic catch up with The Athletic's Football Analytics writer, Tom Worville. In this week's podcast, we cover all manner of topics from what it's like being the only dedicated stats writer in football media to where budding football writers can find useful statistics to support their articles. As always, do please give us a follow on Spotify or whichever provider you use so that the latest episode will be ready and with you to listen to each week. And if you really like us, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Social Media: Pete Trifunovic: @PeteTrifunovic Alex Brinton: @abrinton_99 Matt Lee: @MattLeeJourno Timestamps: 7m05s - What is Expected Goals (xG)? 8m50s - The importance of statistics in football 12m35s - The rise of football analytics 15m35s - Fantasy Football 19m10s - Where should journalists look for to get football statistics? 21m20s - Working at The Athletic 24m40s - The Zonal Marking Podcast 25m25s - Future of football analytics Credits: Werq Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/