Papers that broke my back on the Tube

Ollie Mercer

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Not fiction. Not even proper journalism. Just the stuff I lug about in a rucksack instead of doing actual admin. Some of it's tactics nonsense, some of it's why the number 9 died out, one of it is basically an Excel spreadsheet with delusions of grandeur. Read on the District line at your own risk.

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Papers that broke my back on the Tube — 7 items
Name	Field	Author/Source	Year	Why I'm carrying this one
1Expected Goals and Support Vector Machines	Sports Analytics	Sander IJtsma et al., MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference	2017	Explains why my Sunday League screamer counted for less than a tap-in, apparently. Cheers, maths.
2The Space-Time Behaviour of Football Teams	Sports Science	Javier Fernandez, Barça Innovation Hub	2018	Pretends to be about Barcelona's pressing. Actually just makes me feel bad about my own positioning as a centre-back.
3Attention Is All You Need	Machine Learning	Vaswani et al., Google Research	2017	The transformer paper. Everyone at work quotes it and nobody, including me, has finished it. Pub quiz insurance.
4Visitor Studies at Tate Modern: A Report	Museum Studies	Tate Research Publications	2019	Read this in the actual building once, felt very clever, got moved on by security for loitering near the Rothkos.
5The British Library's Collection: Preservation Challenges	Library Science	British Library Research Series	2016	Found this in the humanities reading room and now I feel weirdly protective of some 400-year-old pamphlets.
6A Statistical Analysis of Corner Kick Efficiency	Sports Analytics	StatsBomb Research	2020	Proves corners are basically a coin flip dressed up as tactics. Explains a lot about our set-piece routine.
7Random Forests	Machine Learning	Leo Breiman, Machine Learning journal	2001	The one I actually use at work. Everything else on this list is for showing off on the Tube.

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