AI football analyst: how to get more from The Analyst

Before a big match, most of us end up with a dozen tabs open and still no clear answer. An AI football analyst lets you just ask, then gives you an answer built on real figures and shows where they came from. This guide covers what The Analyst is, how it helps and how to read what it tells you, using a real chat from League One.

What is an AI football analyst?

An AI football analyst is a chat you can ask about football, backed by a database of matches, players and prices. Think of the mate who has a stat for everything, except this one checks its facts first.

Football Hub’s is called The Analyst. It looks the figures up in Football Hub before it answers, quotes them back and shows you what they add up to, so you’re never left wondering where a number came from.

What it reads

The Analyst reads team sheets as they’re announced, injuries, form, stats and prices before it answers. While a match is on, it adds the live score, the events and the live stats. Behind all of that sit ten seasons of meetings, form and records.

What you can ask

Ask about a match, a player, a market or that theory you came up with at half time, and it’ll tell you whether the numbers back you up. You can keep going from there, as you would with a person. It sticks to football, so ask it for a lasagne recipe and it’ll politely pass.

How does an AI football analyst help?

Getting ready for a match usually means opening a lot of pages: the table, the form, the team news, past meetings and the prices. An AI football analyst brings them together in one answer, and it helps in three ways.

• It does the homework. One question gets you the form, the news and the numbers that matter, without working through a page for each one.
• You can check it. Every figure comes from the app, so you can look up any of them yourself. If something surprises you, ask where it came from.
• It keeps up. Team sheets go in as they’re announced, so the answer you get an hour before kick off knows more than the one you got this morning.

How to read an answer from The Analyst

Answers lead with the story of the match, then give the numbers behind it. The chat at the top of this post is a real example from League One, where a member asked who to back in Oxford United v Bradford on Saturday 24 October, and whether there was any value in it.

See what it checked

Before it answered, The Analyst went through six tools: the fixture, the match analysis, each team’s report, the head to head, the cheatsheet lines and the club news. You can see what each one found, so nothing in the answer comes from nowhere.

Keep the conversation going

You don’t have to get it all in one question. In this chat, the member followed up with “Any cheatsheet lines for it?”, and The Analyst offered three more to tap: who’s missing, how Bradford travel and who the referee is.

Ask it to build a bet

You can also ask it to put a bet together. It lists each leg with its price and the reason for it, then gives an estimated chance of all of them landing, as in this one for Grimsby v York, where three legs came to 24.6%. That’s about one in four, so it’s far more likely to lose than win.

How to get better answers

1. Be specific. Name the match and say what you want to know. “Which side’s form is better at home?” gets you further than “Who’s good?”.
2. Ask for the reasons. “Who wins and why?” gives you far more to work with than “Who wins?”. The reasons are what you can check and disagree with.
3. Use it alongside everything else. It reads football cheat sheets too, so you can ask which streaks hold for the match in front of you, then look at them yourself.

Where to find The Analyst

The Analyst sits in the menu throughout the app, so it’s always a tap away from whatever you’re looking at. It comes with every paid plan, from £8 a month, and the plans differ in how often you can ask. See everything else in the app as well.