Do you have any recommendations for how a hobbyist can get more into the field? Someone who has a technical background, but works in a different field unrelated to sports at all. Any reading material to get familiar with some of the stats and metrics that are used in the industry?
There isn't a ton of great public resources out there. For the most part, anyone who's writing smart analysis in the public space gets hired away to a club. It's exactly what happened in other sports.
But, I would read "The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong" and read the backlogs of the StatsBomb blog. That will get you up to speed pretty quickly.
