{"id":18563,"date":"2025-04-19T07:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T05:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/its-a-new-world-the-analysts-using-ai-to-psychologically-profile-elite-players\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T05:38:16","slug":"its-a-new-world-the-analysts-using-ai-to-psychologically-profile-elite-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/its-a-new-world-the-analysts-using-ai-to-psychologically-profile-elite-players\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a new world\u2019: the analysts using AI to psychologically profile elite players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics can help assess a potential recruit\u2019s emotional control and leadership, while highlighting red flags<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players didn\u2019t show enough fight.\u201d Listen to any pundit\u2019s post-match reaction and you will hear variations of that soundbite. But can you analyse an athlete\u2019s state of mind, based on their on-pitch body language?<\/p>\n<p>In an era when football is increasingly leaning on data to demonstrate physical attributes, statistics offering an accurate indication of a player\u2019s psychological qualities, such as emotional control and leadership, are harder to come by. But Premier League clubs including Brighton are using a technique intended to help in that regard with selection and recruitment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/apr\/19\/analysts-artificial-intelligence-psychologically-profile-elite-players\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/db5c1bc62486e9d541bb115b0e281f93993c00fd\/0_4_4974_2984\/master\/4974.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8ef3479703ab1d48ba3ffcc3d40226f6\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s a new world\u2019: the analysts using AI to psychologically profile elite players\" \/>Statistics can help assess a potential recruit\u2019s emotional control and leadership, while highlighting red flags<br \/>\n\u201cThe players didn\u2019t show enough fight.\u201d Listen to any pundit\u2019s post-match reaction and you will hear variations of that soundbite. But can you analyse an athlete\u2019s state of mind, based on their on-pitch body language?<br \/>\nIn an era when football is increasingly leaning on data to demonstrate physical attributes, statistics offering an accurate indication of a player\u2019s psychological qualities, such as emotional control and leadership, are harder to come by. But Premier League clubs including Brighton are using a technique intended to help in that regard with selection and recruitment. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics can help assess a potential recruit\u2019s emotional control and leadership, while highlighting red flags \u201cThe players didn\u2019t show enough fight.\u201d Listen to any pundit\u2019s post-match reaction and you will hear variations of that soundbite. But can you analyse an athlete\u2019s state of mind, based on their on-pitch body language? In an era when football &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/its-a-new-world-the-analysts-using-ai-to-psychologically-profile-elite-players\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It\u2019s a new world\u2019: the analysts using AI to psychologically profile elite players<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}