Chapter 16: Big Data in Sports

By the time I left Klinsmann's house, everything had already been settled. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Within two days, Klose and Klinsmann were both done, and this efficiency really made Feliro feel a little incredible.

The negotiation process was so smooth that many of the technical discussions Velillo did not hear clearly. Even if she heard clearly, she didn't understand most of it.

Getting in the car, Feliro humbly asked: "I'm still dizzy, how did you convince Klinsmann?" Although the salary you give is good, it is also 1 million yuan a week...... I always felt that he was not interested in money. And as a coach, I am not afraid of retiring when I am old, so I will not be as eager to cash out as Klose. ”

Gu Mojie affirmed with a smile: "Of course it's not for money, this kind of big coffee can't be done by money alone, first of all, he has to appreciate you." Klinsmann, I really didn't misread him, he has really learned a lot from his experience in the United States this year, and he can accept new ideas. ”

Feliro recalled the key points of the conversation between the two and asked tentatively: "You mean, when he was in the United States, he was exposed to the American idea of 'applying big data to football training'?" I've always thought that thing was too mysterious, a bit of a braggart. ”

The "big data in sports" mentioned by Felilo is exactly a concept involved in the negotiations between Gu Mojie and Klinsmann just now.

Gu Mojie is very daring to pack a ticket for this:

"Definitely not bragging, introducing big data into sports training, some people have already started experimenting in the United States. Google is doing the analysis of NBA big data, but it has not yet found a specific next team to experiment. According to my intelligence, Larry Page will start in the next two years, most likely to find a weak team like the Golden State Warriors, and then adjust for two years to strive for the championship. ”

Let a weak team that loses two-thirds of its games in a season and attack the championship?

Gu Mojie's bombshell news was thrown out, not only Fei Liluo was surprised, but even the onlookers next to her were also surprised, and they couldn't help but gather around to discuss this topic.

Lu Wenjun, a girl who was born as a programmer, all looked incredulous: "Impossible, right? What is Google going to do? ”

"I don't know yet, but I can give a few examples - when I bought the Hatsune Green City team at the beginning of the year, I asked the engineers of the big data center to invest some budget and get sports big data. At that time, I had dabbled in the NBA a little, and I could see some clues. ”

Gu Mojie cleared his throat and explained in detail: "For example, through the limited NBA big data collected so far, a technical feature can be seen: in NBA games, in the past ten years, players have stood within 1.2 meters of the three-point line and shot three-pointers, with a shooting rate of only 21%.

Of the 79 percent that didn't score, only 32 percent were actually deflected by the pitcher without interference; The remaining 47% were all due to the efficient interference of the defenders, which led to the failure to score.

Then, if you pull that distance 3 feet out, you can shoot a three-pointer 2 meters beyond the three-point line. At this time, the shooting rate soared to 35%, and the percentage of goals conceded that he couldn't shoot accurately increased from 32% to 46%, but the defense rate dropped sharply from 47% to 19%"

Gu Mojie paused for a moment, so that the girls who didn't know much about basketball could digest this big data, and then threw out their own question: "What does this mean?" ”

"What? Don't sell it and say it directly. Lu Wenjun was caught up in his appetite, and his technical nerdy attribute exploded all of a sudden.

"It shows that the biggest contradiction of NBA players not being able to shoot three-pointers comes from being defended, not by the pitchers themselves. Because they have been used to being swayed all year round, they are used to throwing the ball at a distance of about 1 meter from the three-point line, and they have formed muscle memory for more than ten years, so that they can shoot a little farther away, and the muscle feel is not well mastered. And the defenders are also the most accustomed to defending at this distance.

And at this time, if an opponent suddenly changes the style of play to play a long-range shot, the defenders almost forget to defend, or they can't form a fast enough nervous conditioning to be attacked by a long-range shot.

After I did sports big data, I talked to Larry Page on the phone and communicated with each other. He saw that Hatsune was also very accomplished in artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing, and he could be regarded as spitting something dry on me - anyway, he thought that I was engaged in football big data, and he was engaged in basketball big data, and there was no conflict between us.

On the phone, he told me that he was going to build a team that would train players to shoot three-pointers two meters from the three-point line. Buyers also buy according to this goal, and strive to train the player's muscle memory to fully adapt to this distance shot. Then it's a three-point shot. ”

Hearing this, Lu Wenjun's mouth could almost be stuffed with duck eggs.

Can you still play like this?

"This ...... Is the success rate high? ”

"I've read the details and think it should be quite high. First of all, if there is only one team in the league that uses this tactic, it is impossible for the other teams to change their tactics and training in order to defend this team. Otherwise, they will face more disconnect when playing against each other, and the gains outweigh the losses. It's better to maintain the state of 'I'd rather suffer every time I meet the Golden State Warriors, but still stay the same when I play other opponents'.

In the NBA's regular season, the norm is one game every two or three days, and there are even 'back-to-back' two games in a row of two days. At this time, it is unlikely that players will rely on tactical arrangements to change their course on the fly, and they are basically playing by muscle memory and conditioned reflexes.

Therefore, when encountering this kind of team, which is twisted with the public's muscle memory and conditioned reflex, it is really possible to suffer a general loss. If Larry Page really uses big data to transform the Golden State Warriors, it is estimated that it will be no problem for him to win the first regular season in two years.

But in the playoffs, there will be a lot of trouble. Because of the long break between each game in the playoffs, and several consecutive games are against the same opponent, playing several rounds. At this time, this kind of tricky tactics is easy to be adjusted and resolved by the opponent. So I estimate that the Golden State Warriors will also do well in the Finals, at least two more years than they will take to finish first in the regular season.

Of course, I'm now analyzing the big data based on what Page has so far. The concept of 'shooting a three-pointer three feet back than a conventional three-pointer' is just a drop in the ocean of the application of basketball big data in the NBA. Maybe in another two years, Page will be able to analyze more awesome decisive points, but that's also possible. ”

Gu Mojie said it conclusively, but the girls still refused to believe it.

It's no wonder, after all, the sports application of big data has never been thought of before, and even the mention of it feels crazy.

I don't know how these girls who choose not to believe in Gu Mojie today will feel when the weak Golden State Warriors destroy the old world of the NBA in the form of mudslides and use tactics that people who play with experience have never thought of before killing the regular season and then killing the championship.

After Gu Mojie finished his analysis, he finally threw out his conclusion: "Klinsmann, in April 2009, stepped down from Bayern. What I value is not his qualifications in the German national team and Bayern Munich, but the experience of going to the United States for a year to humbly seek advice and accept new ideas. Such a coach is the most compatible with Hatsune. ”

In another time and space, the later Klinsmann coached the U.S. team after the "retreat of cultivation" in 2011.

China and the United States are not football powers. But China and the United States, at the cusp of this history, are both big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence powers.

At this point in time, those football powers on the planet have been left behind by China and the United States in terms of artificial intelligence and big data.

Klinsmann, a coach who aspires to new football and plays with his brain, can't help but yearn for the picture Gu Mojie painted. In the past few years, he has also learned a lot of strange and unique new training models from Americans.

To put it bluntly, Americans don't pay attention to football, and if they are really willing to study like the Europeans, football can still reach the final four of the World Cup.

Since in history, Klinsmann would choose the American team that was not very high-quality for his new ideas, at this moment, he naturally couldn't resist coming to Hatsune Green Town.

For his team, Gu Mojie got 1 coach who played football with his brains and 5 foreign players who played football with his brains.

Later, shouldn't we organize a little cultural class exam when selecting domestic players? It seems like I'm thinking a little too far.

But as a player, your current skills are important. The ability to react quickly to accept new things is more important in Hatsune.

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The girls were originally ignorant of football, and Gu Mojie explained it like this, and they basically believed it. As far as Felilo's temperament is more suspicious, she can't help but question a little minutiae.

"You say that American-style creative training is so promising, why don't you see American football getting stronger? After so many years, the most they have done is to reach the semifinals, right? Even if you don't pay attention to it, with the financial resources of the United States, even if you can't get as strong as basketball, ice hockey and rugby, you won't be so scummy now, right? Is what you say reliable? ”

Gu Mojie Zhizhu smiled on the ground: "You don't understand this, I also asked Klinsmann's assistant coach in the United States and Larry Page about this." Americans' problem is much more complicated than ours – the point is that they can't get a share of even half of the money in football. Americans are referring to other sports by pit football, which is the hardest hit by the American system. ”

"What?" Gu Mojie's words were so shocking that the girls were all shocked.

"That's a long story. We have always thought that there is a 'national system' only when society pays attention to the state, and there is no national system in the free world. But this perception was wrong from the start.

Since the beginning of the Cold War, the United States has taken on the role of "proving the superiority of the free world." So whether it is the Apollo moon landing, or the Olympics, you have to prove that you are better than the Soviet Union. Therefore, in this regard, the United States is different from those free countries in Europe, and there are some things that the United States has to do even if it is 'costing the people and money'.

Of course, because of the system of capital attention, the United States has a different approach to the specific operation methods of the whole country than China and the Soviet Union. Instead of directly building a bunch of sports schools, we set up sports scholarships in major high-quality universities.

It is a pity that the Americans have encountered a "Constitutional Amendment" that is in the way. There is a gender affirmative action in it, and some universities set up more sports scholarships for boys than women, and then they were sued, all the way to the Supreme Court, and there is no doubt that the university lost the case. Since then, Americans have had to offer scholarships at all universities with the same number of male and female students.

The problem is that there are many sports that are only available to boys, such as rugby. Women don't play rugby. And football is the national sport of the United States, and each university has to give 50 scholarships to football players. Other men's basketball and men's ice hockey teams also have a lot more places than women's teams. In the end, the universities were all blocked by the constitution, and the number of scholarships for male and female students was uneven, so they had to use football to start a knife -- almost every American university has more than 30 female students on football scholarships to form a women's football team. In 95% of American universities, the men's soccer team does not have any scholarship students - although these universities will also form men's soccer teams, they are not special students who get scholarships, they are all ordinary ****** enthusiasts to play.

On the other hand, this also explains why American football is terrible, but women's football is strong, because most of the sports scholarships that flow to the women's field under the Gender Equality Act are divided by the girls who play football. ”

Fei Liluo suddenly realized: "I'm ashamed, I still studied law, and I haven't figured this out in the United States for so many years." After a long time, the U.S. men's soccer team was stabbed in the back by the U.S. Constitution and law. ”

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Gu Mojie and his entourage, this can be regarded as a complete clarification of things in the sports circle. The follow-up work of the Hatsune Green City Club should be handed over to the professionals, there is no need to let Gu Mojie worry about it, not to mention that he doesn't understand it.

Gu Mojie's attention shifted back to the main dish of this trip to Munich - the cooperation with Siemens.

Porsche can make cars, including hybrid vehicles, but in terms of on-board electronics and electrical control, as well as high-performance motors, batteries and other fields, it needs professional suppliers.

Siemens, based in Munich, is clearly the best partner for Gu Mojie's future avionics hardware for intelligent vehicles.

Hatsune Intelligence itself also makes hardware, but the main area involved is mobile phone equipment, if you really want to build a car, many peripherals are unreliable, you must outsource, buy some long-term and stable authorization.

In fact, from the beginning, Gu Mojie should have focused on taking care of Siemens' cooperation matters first. In contrast, Klose's 100 million euro deal is completely small. It's just that because this year happens to be a World Cup year, buying Klose one day earlier, the chip in Gu Mojie's hand that "as soon as the deal is made, you will take a vacation to concentrate on preparing for the World Cup" is more valuable, so I have to reverse this order.

If you talk to Siemens for a month, and then go to Bayern, the Bundesliga itself will be suspended, and Gu Mojie's card with an early holiday will be worthless.

That's also a matter of urgency.

On the day of departure from Klinsmann's home, Gu Mojie's convoy returned to downtown Munich, found a hotel to stay, and then began to lay out. (To be continued.) )