Less cleaning, more targeting: a recruitment analyst case study

Recruitment analysts are hired to find players, not to reconcile them. In practice a large share of the week still goes on cleaning: the same midfielder under three spellings, minutes that do not match the fixture they came from, and a private model that cannot be joined to a vendor export without another spreadsheet.

This case study looks at how clubs use Statquake so that desk spends its time on targets, not on the join. The shift is a mapped identity layer and a player data API that analysts can integrate against the metrics they already trust.

Global ID mapping

Statquake’s global IDs map a player across external sources and major data providers. Career path, appearances, market value and match events attach to one record - whether the next file arrives from a vendor, a federation, or the club’s own notes.

That is the benefit recruitment desks feel first. Instead of deciding which row is “the real” player, analysts open one profile and read the football. The same identifier is what the API returns, so internal models can key off it without a weekly cleanup pass.

A player API against your own metrics

Clubs rarely want to replace the models they have already built. They want a comprehensive, reliable feed they can sit those models on: pull a clean player and match set, join it to in-house xG, availability or valuation work, and rank the list.

• Less time matching names and IDs across providers.
• A documented API to integrate Statquake with club metrics.
• One graph for men’s, women’s and youth - the same person stays the same person.
• Shortlists that start from coverage, not from whichever file was cleaned last.

Focus on the best players

When the data layer is stable, the meeting changes. Analysts argue about fit, minutes and trajectory - not about whether two rows are the same person. Targeting the best available players becomes a modelling problem again, with a mapped API underneath instead of a pile of exports.

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