In Episode 20, stats guru Duncan Alexander, VP, Data Editorial, Analytics and Innovation for Stats Perform joins host Dan Ogunshakin for a chat.

On the pod, they discuss his role at the company, what services they provide, the history behind OptaJoe, just how many times the famous Manchester United lineup of Schmeichel, Neville, Johnsen, Stam, Irwin, Beckham, Scholes, Keane, Giggs, Yorke and Cole actually started together and much more.

Duncan has been working for Stats Perform - previously known as Opta among other things - for more than a decade and was one of the founders of the hugely popular twitter account OptaJoe. The author of two books, OptaJoe’s Football Yearbook and Outside the Box: A statistical journey through the history of football, Duncan is a regular contributor to the Totally Football Show podcast. He has also appeared a number of times on Fox Sports Asia’s the John Dykes Show and BBC Radio 5 Live.

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