What do we reckon this could be then?

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11549831

 

James taking over club ?

 

My guess would be they think they can sell consultancy or analytic models to other organisations from the work they’ve already done developing ‘the spreadsheet’.

Like a poor man’s Prozone. And by a poor man, I mean a homeless beggar addicted to spice.

 

Data Services Company could be getting paid for his time on the abacus

 

Spreadsheet has set up his own company.

 

Assuming this offshoot files it's accounts next year, would we see any profits that will no doubt be benefiting the football club referenced in 'our' accounts?

 

I think there was talk some time ago that Patrick was keen to leverage "the model".

Seeing that James has over 75% stake and it was only incorporated in September last year, its likely a vehicle for him to be paid a salary. Though interestingly, I wonder if that were the case where the intellectual property would lie for this model as it was created within BFC and that was bought prior to the date of this company registration.

Surely they will have legal assurances either way that James is allowed to either develop a model and advise or sell its use elsewhere, or that some form of royalties are due to BFC, or they've waived such rights.

 

When I was self-employed IT Consultant in the U.K., working at Midland Bank in Tankersley, I setup a company known as Oakwell Data Services Limited.

I think I dissolved it in the eighties, so it's not me.

 

If the club think they have some proprietary model for unearthing talent wouldn't selling this knowledge elsewhere reduce the benefits of the model?

I'm not sure our current league position is the best advert but as suggested earlier this may be a way of remunerating James for his work at the club and minimising things like NI and tax. Purely supposition as usual.

 

I've worked out the plan!

We sell the model to everyone else, they all go down the pan, we sign players who are actually team ready and we inherit the earth... genius!

 

I should contact them. Strange as this may seem I work in product management, currently designing analytical software that is the most cutting edge and innovative product on the planet. I'm not bullshltting, it actually is! Business Intelligence don't cha know. Who knew. Not me. I could produce widgets and dashboards, interactive bar charts, donut charts, scattergrams and box and whisker plots that would precisely detail exactly why we're ****.

 

Does your BI platform integrate seamlessly with open APIs? Is it fully scalable? Is the data lake accessible? Can I use it to drive business decisions & efficiency? Can it leverage the power of 3rd party visualisation tools? Can it hide stuff in plain sight like is happening down there?

 

You two've changed

 

Nar, I've always blagged stuff I don't understand.

 

I remember Jay once posting that we only exist in a giant computer simulation and I think I understood more of that then half of this thread

 

You don't need APIs or third party visualisation tools as I provide all the means necessary to extract the required data in a simplistic, minimalist and intuitive manner. The data is what you provide me so you already have access, I just allow you to quickly and simply access exactly what you require. Business decisions and strategies become simple with the insights I provide. Visualisations are as wide or focused as required and hiding **** is my speciality. Big numbers for the bosses and granularity for those who require it.

 

Still believe that

 

What are we looking at? Don’t get it..

 

Can you play Solitaire on it ?

 

Whoever wrote the code for the last 4 years wants sacking