Training Ground Guru Podcast

Training Ground Guru

Welcome to the Training Ground Guru Podcast. In every episode we bring you insights into the teams behind the teams in professional football. Thank you for listening.

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Training Ground Guru Podcast

Episodes (84)

Aug 20th Reed Shaffner: Football's AI moment - promise and pitfalls
Jul 19th Anna West: Waking football to the power of sleep
Jun 16th Joe Newton: From Brentford to Spurs – life as a first-team analyst

Training Ground Guru Podcast

Aug 20, 2026
40½ minutes
55 MB

Our guest on Episode #81 of the TGG Podcast is Reed Shaffner, Chief Technology Officer at Teamworks. Reed oversees the engineering, design, product and data science teams behind a platform used across professional and collegiate sport. In this Episode, Reed told us where AI is genuinely working in football and where it isn't; warned about the security and privacy risks some clubs are underestimating; and explained how and how Teamworks Player ID is learning to identify how good a player will become, versus how good they look today. SHOW NOTES => 0:00: Introduction <...

Training Ground Guru Podcast

Reed Shaffner: Football's AI moment - promise and pitfalls

Training Ground Guru

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