An awful lot has been written about data and analytics around Hearts in the last month. But the only stats that matter right now are the ones staring the Jambos in the face at the bottom of the table - zero wins and just two points from eight games.
Jamestown Analytics is the Tony Bloom-linked tool that produced Neil Critchley’s name as the best candidate - according to CEO Andrew McKinlay - to sort out that mess that ultimately cost Steven Naismith his job last month.
Yet the numbers around the 45-year-old are hardly encouraging either given he has been sacked from his last two jobs at Blackpool and QPR in the space of under two years.
He lasted just 12 games at Loftus Road. It’s a set of circumstances that sees Critchley, unveiled at Tynecastle on Tuesday, arrive in the job with a lukewarm reception from punters.