Alex Mercer
Head of Football Analytics
At MantisPicks since 2015
Credentials
- ✓10+ years modelling football markets
- ✓Former trader at a European sportsbook
- ✓BSc Statistics
Expertise
FootballPoisson & xG modelsValue betting
Alex builds and maintains MantisPicks’s football prediction model. He spent six years as an odds trader before moving to the analytics side, and specialises in turning attack/defence data into probabilities and value.
Every football tip on MantisPicks runs through Alex’s Poisson-based model before it is published — no tip goes out on gut feeling alone.