Carroll’s work is much acclaimed

Rob Carroll’s love of gaelic games and statistics led him to create gaelicstats.com.

The website’s homepage carries a five word summation of Carroll’s objective — Understanding The Game Through Knowledge — and to date plenty of teams have secured his services in an attempt to do just that.

Carroll, who holds a Masters in Performance Analysis, has worked with various intercounty sides including Louth, Meath, Dublin and last season was part of Kieran McGeeney’s backroom team at Kildare. And word of his work, which was inspired by the acclaimed American book Moneyball, is spreading.