Fforde are seeking PhD or MSc graduates WITH or WITHOUT commercial
experience for a client working with Football Statistics
You need to have excellent data analysis and statistical skills , coupled
with an enthusiasm for football
JOB ROLE:
Develop strategy to identify individual bets and portfolios of bets
that offer superior returns.
Liaise with clients to determine risk attitudes and desired portfolio
characteristics.
Implement optimal decision methods to actively manage client
portfolios of bets.
Supervise the acquisition and management of historic and current price
data.
Re-appraise the financial literature on no-arbitrage pricing in
incomplete markets.
Identify and act on "premium" betting opportunities in real-time.
Monitor the statistics and computing literature on data-mining and
knowledge discovery in databases.
Maintain databases for match outcomes, covariates, qualitative and
quantitative expert knowledge, and quoted prices for bets.
Maintain documentation of software modules.
Assist in implementing inferential and portfolio choice calculations.
Manage predictions and portfolios on a day-to-day basis.
Continually review statistical models using newly-available data.
Monitor performance of portfolios, relative to their predicted
characteristics.
Periodically review statistical models by cross-validation.
Explore possibilities for "parallelisation" of numerically intensive
methods.
Monitor the statistical literature on football outcome modelling.
Review and monitor the sports science literature on football team
performance.
Send your CV to David Heath @ Fforde
01273 722366
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