Football Manager database licensed for real scouting

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British developer Sports Interactive has made a business - a very fine, profitable and long-running business - out of accurately simulating the statistics of football. Its Football Manager series reaches the best part of 1m people (more if you count pirated versions) with each instalment each year, and its accrued database is enormous.
Now that database is going to help educate real-life transfers in football.
Football analyser Prozone struck a deal with Sports Interactive to use biographical, contractual and positional details from the Football Manager series, reported the BBC. Prozone Recruiter is a service many football clubs use to scout players with.
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