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Plus, different clubs are going to take different approaches, use different data providers etc. And it comes down to how your analysts interpret the data and how well they interpret it - and how good are they are communicating this to the senior recruitment staff?

Think I might be tempted to play 11 players.

Seeing prejudice when there Isn't any proof of any basically.

It seems odd that he was asked to play out of position, if that is true. Maybe that was part of a character test. Would the potential transfer fee have been a problem? £40k doesn't seem much to us anymore.

Kevin Nolan doesn't know what he's talking about either

The irony of the most sneery poster on here levelling that criticism at someone else. You don't know what you're talking about. Player recruitment doesn't work on aesthetic factors.

I don't think there is a loan window below the EFL

surely you should know by now that most of malone's posts are him raking up old posts to humiliate regardless of how relevant they are

on the flip side though, as someone who works in AI and machine learning and is very aware of inherent racial biases in datasets, I'd love to know how you think it can possibly apply here, where AI isn't being used at all, just plain old data modelling.

You did point that out twice but as I made very clear, I was referring to the players signed in Jan. As we all know, this was the first window post Scott Mitchell and one in which I'm assuming a different approach was used that relies more heavily on, ahem, aglorythms and less on traditional scouting.

Now I appreciate there are a few members on here who don't seem to understand nuance, so for the avoidance of doubt I am absolutely not accusing any member of the Wycombe team of bias, either conscious or unconscious. But given none of us on here know what datasets are used, how they're being interpreted or how comprehensive they are, I think it's a perfectly valid to point out a clear pattern in signings that appears to correlate with a well-established criticism of the fast-developing world of AI. Whether it's fair in the case of the data that the club use, none of us on here know. @flymofrank can post as many sneery comments as he likes but his knowledge appears to extend no further than a couple of articles he's found on the internet. And I doubt anyone has much more insight than him.

I think this is a bizarre comparison. I'd ask you to explain your thinking but, on balance, it's probably best none of us actually know what was going through your mind.