Billie Bean mentions Burnley

[Barrowboy]

Billie Bean is the guy that the film Moneyball was based on.
In this short documentary he uses Burnley and Manchester United as an example of his Oakland budget versus New York Yankees

https://youtu.be/lLcXH_4rwr4

Very interesting as we enter the silly season of buying and selling players.
Fame at last...UTC

[Barrowboy]

Here's more interesting information about Burnley's buying model.

https://youtu.be/tcGaph1XNPk

[Bullabill]

"Billy Bean built a machine to see what it could do. He made it out of sticks and stones, and nuts and bolts and glue."
"The motor ran, chuttle-a-bang, ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-torator, And all of a sudden a picture appeared on the funny old cartoonerator".

[Vino blanco]

I remember that Billy Bean, Bullabill: I'm guessing it was BBC children's TV about 1954.

[Chester Perry]

Both of those links would sit well in this thread - thanks for posting

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=46754

[Vino blanco]

There was also another Billy Bean: w. G. Bean was an entrepreneur who operated at the beginning of the 20 th century, He was known as Billy Bean. He had worked in the States and visited Coney Island. When he came back to the UK he set up the Pleasure Beach in Blackpool and I believe the park still remains in the family and is run by his great, great grand daughter.

[Bfcboyo]

Billy Bean was not my lover.

[jtv]

I have just finished reading Christoph Biermann's book "Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution". A great read and Sean Dyche and Burnley FC get some very positive mentions in it. Nick Pope is also included in a table that charts "expected goals" and "goals conceded" in 3rd place with a positive figure of 3.18 (de Gea 5.64 and Dubrovka 4.77). The chart does not state for which season though.