king_dezeeuw06
Vital Champions League
I've been having a look around and the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team who one of our potential new owners is part owner of are a very interesting team. I've shared some articles below worth a look below.
To summarise there are a lot of similarities to ourselves; always battling low attendances, apathetic locals, low spending compared to rival, little history, unglamorous club, share a stadium with other local sports, teams, often not given respect. They were perennial no hopers until a takeover from a succesful businessman transformed their fortunes on the field and have gone on to achieved great success despite the unglamorous image, low crowds, small budget etc not changing.
But the one area they do differ from us is their recruitment based on analytics and money ball which is at tge heart of theur success is very much the baseball equivalent of Brentford.
Ganaye has done interviews talking about this same type of ideology and was doing it at his previous clubs including Barnsley. So I think there is absolutely no doubt the future is develop the kids and having an extensive scouting set up to find cheap hidden gems no one else fancied and sell them on for a large profit as soon as possible. Then reinvest in improving the side and making sufficient money to keep the club self sufficient and give the owners a profit. It's what all clubs aspire to do including ourselves in the past but never got to the point it was working - it's easier said than done but I think these guys have experience of making it work so hopefully they will be exactly what we need.
The problem since our Prem money went is we were almost trying to fast track our success rather than build up to it by investing heavily beyond our means in the short term in the hope it would pay off down the line. It was high risk / high reward and pretty much building your house on sand - highly vulnerable to disaster. Tampa do the opposite; they operate with the lowest budget in the league and make profit every year in player sales. To put into context they operate at 50% less than the leagues average wage bill. It is quoted one player reccently moved in the NBL for 30m a year salary while Tampa full squad wage bill is about 50m in total. Yet they are very competitive every year despite selling their best players and seem to have a conveyor belt of unknown diamonds in the rough just as good ready to step up and the team doesn't miss a beat.
Very encouraging reading. Sounds like exactly the type of mentality and approach we will need to rise again and be succesful in the future. Hopefully there will be no snags and the deal done asap and the rebuild can begin.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....n-baseball-without-spending-money-11569931202
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mlb.com/amp/news/rays-success-built-on-analytics-development.html
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.tsn.ca/column-penny-pinching-rays-manage-to-keep-up-with-big-boys-1.1307448?tsn-amp
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....ld-fan-attendance-relocation-payroll-playoffs
To summarise there are a lot of similarities to ourselves; always battling low attendances, apathetic locals, low spending compared to rival, little history, unglamorous club, share a stadium with other local sports, teams, often not given respect. They were perennial no hopers until a takeover from a succesful businessman transformed their fortunes on the field and have gone on to achieved great success despite the unglamorous image, low crowds, small budget etc not changing.
But the one area they do differ from us is their recruitment based on analytics and money ball which is at tge heart of theur success is very much the baseball equivalent of Brentford.
Ganaye has done interviews talking about this same type of ideology and was doing it at his previous clubs including Barnsley. So I think there is absolutely no doubt the future is develop the kids and having an extensive scouting set up to find cheap hidden gems no one else fancied and sell them on for a large profit as soon as possible. Then reinvest in improving the side and making sufficient money to keep the club self sufficient and give the owners a profit. It's what all clubs aspire to do including ourselves in the past but never got to the point it was working - it's easier said than done but I think these guys have experience of making it work so hopefully they will be exactly what we need.
The problem since our Prem money went is we were almost trying to fast track our success rather than build up to it by investing heavily beyond our means in the short term in the hope it would pay off down the line. It was high risk / high reward and pretty much building your house on sand - highly vulnerable to disaster. Tampa do the opposite; they operate with the lowest budget in the league and make profit every year in player sales. To put into context they operate at 50% less than the leagues average wage bill. It is quoted one player reccently moved in the NBL for 30m a year salary while Tampa full squad wage bill is about 50m in total. Yet they are very competitive every year despite selling their best players and seem to have a conveyor belt of unknown diamonds in the rough just as good ready to step up and the team doesn't miss a beat.
Very encouraging reading. Sounds like exactly the type of mentality and approach we will need to rise again and be succesful in the future. Hopefully there will be no snags and the deal done asap and the rebuild can begin.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....n-baseball-without-spending-money-11569931202
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mlb.com/amp/news/rays-success-built-on-analytics-development.html
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.tsn.ca/column-penny-pinching-rays-manage-to-keep-up-with-big-boys-1.1307448?tsn-amp
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....ld-fan-attendance-relocation-payroll-playoffs