"Brighton & Hove Albion travel to Brentford on Saturday and it's a chance to remind us all that they've achieved something special too. The Seagulls are an established Premier League team and have been since they were promoted in 2017. They've finished in the top half three times in eight seasons, the culmination of a 25-year journey from the bottom tier of the Football League in the wake of near oblivion."
"Both Brentford and Brighton have thrived on the back of unorthodox, thoroughly modern methodologies. Brentford owner Matthew Benham is a gambling mogul whose specialism in statistical modelling has powered the Bees up the divisions and proved once and for all that their wings are plenty big enough for their bodies according to the laws of aerodynamics. Tony Bloom has also branched out from gambling into sports statistics."
Brighton & Hove Albion have been in the Premier League since promotion in 2017 and have finished in the top half three times in eight seasons after a 25-year ascent from the Football League bottom tier. Brentford were in League Two as recently as 2009 and have been in the Premier League since promotion in 2021. Both clubs advanced through unorthodox, modern, data-driven methodologies under owners with gambling and analytics backgrounds. Matthew Benham used statistical modelling to progress Brentford, while Tony Bloom expanded into sports statistics via Jamestown Analytics. The clubs illustrate analytic success in a financially closed Premier League, with 2025-26 exposing emerging differences.
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