Sport Pundits, where do they??????

[trt]

How or where do the football sports TV pundits and newspaper sport reporters
get their statistics from for players, when they tell us how many passes, shots on/off target, % shooting accuracy, chance conversions, blocked shots and how many miles they have run in a game etc, etc?

Do they have people watching the video later which is unlikely or, some kind of computer software that does it for them?

[Buenchico]

Programmes like Match of the Day employ statisticians like Albert Sewell, who received the MBE for his services in that role:
http://news.bbc.co.uk...f_the_day/4081492.stm

Chris

[VHG]

I think many companies use OPTA

http://www.optasports.com/

[weecalf]

Wonder how many times the interviewed players say erm

[trt]

Thanks Buenchico and VHG.

weecalf, very true and have you ever counted how many times Rooney touches his face in interviews and says '' Sure ''?

[weecalf]

Just making sure its still there I expect