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Lu Qi and Chen Tong didn't arrive until noon.

In the morning, Zhou Buqi didn't go anywhere, but tried to have a baby in the bedroom. There will be rewards only if there is dedication. For other things, he can let his subordinates handle them if he gives directions. He can only do this kind of thing himself.

"Ya Meng, help me tie my belt."

"Lie down, don't move, wait another ten minutes."

Ning Yaxian stopped her sister and asked her to continue lying on the bed with a pillow around her waist, maintaining a strange posture, while she came to help.

Helping him tighten his belt, Ning Yaxian pursed her lips and said, "Wearing a belt requires someone to wait on you, my lord, if this continues, you will not be able to take care of yourself."

Zhou Buqi said casually: "It will be fine in the future, when all the servants at home are in place, you won't be required to do this kind of work."

"Servant?"

"It's just... haven't I told you? Oh, it seems like I haven't. Didn't I buy a lot of real estate in the United States, and I have to find some maids to look after the house, usually cleaning and so on."

"Maid..." Ning Yaxian gave him a complicated look, "Aren't they everywhere?"

Zhou Buqi said: "The levels are different, just like in ancient times, can the maids in the imperial palace and the maids in the magistrate's house be the same standard?"

Ning Yaxian was angry and funny.

Ning Yameng, who was lying on the bed, couldn't help asking, "How many?"

"At least a dozen."

"so much?!"

"There are so many houses..." Zhou Buqi saw that the beautiful eyes of the Ning sisters were all wide open, and he knew that the two had misunderstood, so he hurriedly explained, "Where are you going? Didn't I say, just like the ancient rich It’s like a large courtyard. In the backyard, there are main rooms, concubine rooms, and some maids to do the work. Wives and concubines have to be taken care of, and they are all prepared for you. After a few months, both of you will have big stomachs. Just go to raise the baby, and there must be someone around to take care of it.”

Ning Yameng shook her head again and again, "I don't want it, I can take care of myself."

Zhou Buqi said: "There's nothing to be ashamed of, isn't that the case for wealthy families? By the way, you can ask Shi Jinglin, and see how many servants her family has. Our family's life is too frugal. You can't be too extravagant in China, you don't have these scruples abroad, you can enjoy it when you should. You follow me without a name or a role, what are you trying to do? Yaxian, are you right?"

"Um."

Ning Yaxian nodded slightly.

Lu Qi and Chen Tong have already arrived and are waiting in the coffee shop on the 4th floor.

Zhou Buqi didn't let her follow and went downstairs directly.

It was found that there were three other people besides these two. One is Chen Tong's assistant, one is Lu Qi's assistant, and the other is Lu Qi's friend.

After an introduction, I found out that this friend has a lot of background. He is Alexander Brown, the director of the data analysis center of the Denver Broncos of the American Football League.

He was Lu Qi's classmate when he was a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie University!

This is amazing.

On the one hand, it shows the huge influence of football in the United States. Doctoral students from such top universities do not go to work in Silicon Valley after graduation, but go to work in a football team. At the same time, it also illustrates the penetration of technology in the American sports world.

It's a pity that this Alexander Brown is an American and knows nothing about football.

Not interested in football, it is impossible to dig him to Manchester United.

Lu Qi also meant the same thing. He invited Alexander to come to the UK this time mainly to use his experience in the field of data analysis to help make suggestions.

Zhou Buqi was very satisfied.

The operating logic of the enterprise should be like this, the chairman proposes ideas, and the general manager leads the team to realize the ideas. Before that, Lu Qi had talked with Zhou Buqi on the phone, feeling a little uneasy.

The coverage of Ziweixing's overseas business is too wide. In addition to the main business of social networking, it also needs to create an "Internet + movie" ecosystem, and now it has its eyes on the football industry.

You know, Ziweixing has just started its layout in the European and American markets, so many businesses have been launched in a hurry, can it be done?

Fortunately, Zhou Buqi convinced him.

The main entrepreneurial work in overseas business is actually the main social business. All other businesses are integrated, and the integration process may not be smooth, which is not important.

The important thing is to occupy the pit first!

Take advantage of the economic crisis to acquire as many high-quality intangible assets as possible. After you buy it, you can slowly integrate and operate it. It doesn't matter if you don't do well in the initial stage, you need to finalize the strategic layout first.

In particular, the "Internet + football" business is mainly aimed at the European market and can be operated as an independent subsidiary, which can own more non-Internet assets.

During the chat, Alexander Brown talked about the application of data in sports. Although he doesn't know football, all sports are common. What is the essential difference between rugby and baseball games and football games?

Then, he talked about a real case in the American Baseball League-Bill James.

"There was a poor baseball team called the Oakland Athletics. They didn't have the money to buy big-name players, and they didn't have the money to pay high salaries. General manager Bill James had to innovate in order to deal with this situation. He abandoned the traditional Scouts use the method of selecting players, but use data analysis methods to select players. The players they selected at cheap prices performed very well. These players quickly rose in value after they came to the Athletics, and Billy increased his value. The players sold in exchange for new low-priced players. He spent tens of thousands of hours on the study of baseball data, and eventually he revolutionized the entire baseball world. Now the American Baseball League, are using his method. "

Such a statement is obviously incompatible with the current football world.

Ferguson alone will pass.

However, one thing is true.

The past scouting model that relied purely on subjective judgments must be improved, improved, and improved. Berbatov is an example. He performed very well in the Premier League in the past few seasons, and then Ferguson bought it at a high price, and then it became a parallel import. Can his "handsome brother" style of play and very little running data really fit Manchester United's rapidly advancing three-dimensional offense?

Alexander Brown talked about a lot of highly professional topics in the field of data analysis, and Zhou Buqi couldn't keep up with the train of thought.

It's okay, go out and find someone!

Yesterday, he had the people from the goal website contact the data media company OPTA. Professional topics should be discussed by professional people.

In the year of the financial tsunami, life for OPTA was not easy.

This is a company with more than 500 employees.

Many of them are grassroots data collectors distributed in various clubs.

However, in the past few months, too many clubs have given up paying and switched to some less professional but free and low-fee data companies.

This leaves them facing a loss of more than £3 million this year.

If someone buys it, it will definitely be sold.

Zhou Buqi called Goal's Jonathan, went to OPTA Media Company together, and then talked with OPTA's senior vice president Andrew.

First, let's talk about the example of Bill James.

Andrew waved his hand and said with a smile: "I know, in fact, there are similar examples in football, just in the Premier League."

"oh?"

Zhou Buqi was very curious.

Andrew said: "It's Big Sam."

"Who is it?"

"Sam Allardyce, who previously coached Bolton, created a series of amazing successes. However, he only used the most superficial and simple data analysis model."

Alexander smiled and asked, "Can you be more specific?"

Andrew said: "Of course, we tracked his data projects back then. It's just...we provided enough professional reference data, and they only used the tip of the iceberg. But even the tip of the iceberg has achieved great results. Achievement."

Then, I talked about the process of the future England national team coach Allardyce using data analysis to achieve great success in the Premier League.

Bolton is just a small club with an annual transfer budget of less than 7 million pounds. They can only buy some cheap goods to supplement the lineup. They are regarded as one of the weakest teams in the Premier League.

However, under the influence of data analysis, Allardyce has achieved very successful coaching at Bolton.

Statistics show that if a team runs more and faster than the opponent, then in 80% of the games, such a team can remain unbeaten.

Therefore, when he was designing tactics, his first request was to require the players to run better and run longer than the opponent in each game.

Secondly, through video analysis, he analyzes what kind of grenade tactics, corner kicks, and free kick tactics have a higher probability of scoring goals. These tactics are then mainly practiced in training. As a result, half of Bolton's goals came from these tactics, well above the league average.

The football transfer market discriminates against older players.

But the data shows that the statistics of many older players are not worse than that of young players. The price of older players is lower, and they can even be paid for free.

Then, Allardyce bought a large number of senior players in the transfer market, including Djorkaeff, Hierro, Campo, Okko, who were once famous players but were given up by other teams because of their age. Cha, Gary Speed ​​et al.

It also bought some young people who others looked down upon but the comprehensive data was very good-looking, forming an army of the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled.

Just relying on these three tricks, Bolton is against the sky.

In the past few years, under Allardyce's leadership, Bolton has been able to reach the top eight in the Premier League every season, and has also entered the semi-finals of the FA Cup twice.

As fans, Zhou Buqi and Chen Tong felt a little overwhelmed after hearing this.

Stories like this are so fascinating.

Alexander Brown shook his head, "This data application is too simple."

Andrew said helplessly: "It's very simple. We wanted to provide a richer data analysis method, but...Big Sam couldn't understand it. Later, he even gave up working with us and turned to ProZone."

Zhou Buqi concluded: "It's not surprising. Everyone can only do what they know. The future famous coach must be proficient in big data analysis. Mr. Allardyce may not have a chance."

He said this with confidence.

Future football coaches, Guardiola, Tuchel, Klopp, Frank, Zidane, Arteta, Marshal Na, Pochettino, Martinez, etc., are all data application and analysis master.

Andrew said deeply, and said with emotion: "Yes, in the current Premier League, the data level is only equivalent to that of elementary school students. Calculate the average value, do some basic calculations, and look at the bar chart. But there is no way to conduct more complicated and detailed data. Retrospective analysis. There is a huge gap between European football and several sports leagues in the United States, and there is still a long way to go.”

Zhou Buqi said: "There is a specialization in the art industry, and this is the role of a businessman."