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Soccer player predicted as the top rising star – back in November (video)

Jure Rejec
Last updated: 2016/05/11 at 4:36 PM
Jure Rejec
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Did you know that Big Data can help us predict who the future soccer stars will be? This is precisely what happened in Riyad Mahrez’s case, PFA Player of the Year, who has conquered the English Premier League with Leicester City.

Riyad Mahrez

Did you know that Big Data can help us predict who the future soccer stars will be? This is precisely what happened in Riyad Mahrez’s case, PFA Player of the Year, who has conquered the English Premier League with Leicester City.

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Riyad Mahrez

During last year’s Big Data Week Conference in London, Malta-based entrepreneur Valery Bollier correctly foresaw that the Leicester midfielder would be the player to keep an eye on. ”I’ll give you a prediction for this season: there is a footballer, named (Riyad) Mahrez.

According to our game, he is at the moment the best midfielder in Europe, not just in England,” said Bollier during the presentation about Big Data, sports and online games back in November. ”I bet that at the end of the season his value will be huge.”

Oulala's scoring system

How is it possible that Bollier gave such an accurate prediction? The answer to this question is the power of big data and information, which is collected during soccer matches. This means that the actions occurring on the field are converted into numbers through the use of mathematics and computing power.

Bollier is the co-founder and CEO of daily fantasy sports operator Oulala.com, which is known for its sophisticated mathematical matrix. Oulala’s system includes 70 different criteria dependent on a player’s position (keeper, defender, midfielder, striker), resulting in a total of 275 ways to gain or lose points. These range from the usual goals and assists to the more detailed shots on target and successful tackles, amongst many others, making it as close to soccer reality as possible.

Despite the fact that there were 6 players in total to win the award for the PFA Player of the Year (Riyad Mahrez, N’Golo Kante, Jamie Vardy, Harry Kane, Dimitri Payet and Mesut Ozil), it wasn’t hard to guess who the winner would be: according to Oulala, Mahrez has been the best Premier league player so far with 1161 overall points in 36 appearances, and the sixth best player in Europe only behind Lionel Messi (1677), Neymar (1530), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (1451), Luis Suarez (1334) and Cristiano Ronaldo (1245). In the Premier League, the 25-year-old Algerian is followed by teammate Jamie Vardy who has collected exactly 1000 points in 35 matches.

Kevin de Bruyne 
As you can see in the video below, Bollier further explains that the player who attracted lots of attention last season was Kevin de Bruyne, from Wolfsburg (Bundesliga): ”Three, four months after the beginning of the season we usually start seeing unknown players from small teams that start over performing in our game.”

They have more points than they should. Usually at the end of the season these guys are bought by big clubs.”

De Bruyne, the Footballer of the Year 2015 in Germany, was later signed by Manchester City for a transfer fee of £58 million (€74 million).

What about Mahrez, who has won the Premier League sensationally with the Foxes? Will he earn himself a move to a ”bigger” club? Despite the fact that he currently has a contract with LCFC that will keep him in the club until June 2019, there is no doubt that his numerous suitors will be making big money offers.

Jure Rejec May 11, 2016
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