Knowledge and skills
The main qualities of a professional analyst are a genuine interest in the chosen sport and a simultaneous lack of emotions. If the analyst is worried about the victory of a particular team, this will inevitably affect the quality of the forecast.

The interest in sports is not associated with passion, but with understanding the situation, analytical thinking, the ability to look at the game from a distance. He must constantly monitor sports events, information around the chosen championship, and other factors. The analyst always thoroughly knows everything related to the analyzed sport and athletes.

No special training is required to work as a sports analyst for writing predictions and metareviews. This capacity can be either an experienced athlete or a commentator, or a journalist or other person who is not associated with sports in a “past life”. The main thing is that he has the appropriate knowledge and skills.

A sports analyst must have an excellent knowledge of mathematics, especially such branches as probability theory and statistics. He will have to work a lot with a computer and use specialized programs that process large statistical arrays. He needs to thoroughly study the subject area — sport and the situation around it — and constantly replenish the piggy bank of knowledge, analyze, draw conclusions. The advantage will be its own program of sports events analytics.