Statistical analyst covering tactics, performance data, and the numbers behind international football.
Ijaz Shah spent seven years working in performance analytics at club level before turning his attention to international football. His work sits at the intersection of traditional tactical analysis and modern data science. He is more interested in what the numbers explain than what they merely describe.
At Gegenpresss, Ijaz covers deep-dive analysis pieces and data journalism, with a particular focus on how statistical trends across domestic leagues translate into tournament performance. He believes most football commentary is qualitatively overconfident and quantitatively under-informed, and he is here to fix that.
His method: find the metric nobody is tracking, build the argument from the ground up, and never mistake correlation for a narrative.