K. Tarkan Batgun
About Me
As the CEO of Comparisonator, Mr. Batgun brings over 20 years of analytical expertise and experience from both club and agency perspectives in the global football business.
Mr. Batgun’s career includes roles as the Director of Scouting at Bursaspor, where he pioneered the concept of the ‘Scouting Laboratory,’ and as a management consultant at leading companies such as SoccerLab, Wyscout, and Sportstech (both later acquired by Hudl).He served as a Board Member at Altinordu FK during the 2020-21 season and worked as a lecturer at Istanbul’s prominent Halic University’s Physical Education and Sports Faculty from 2010 to 2021.
His football journey began as a player in Australia, as well as being part of Australian A-League as a commentator & reporter back from 2005. His educational background includes studies in Econometrics at the University of Istanbul, computer programming at the University of Marmara, and an MBA semester at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He has been actively involved in football education, having lectured at the Turkish Football Federation on Match Analysis and Scouting courses since 2010. Mr. Batgun also founded and managed the NIKE Turkiye scouting team from 2014 to 2021.
His contributions to the field have earned him recognition, including the ‘Sportsman of the Year in Technology’ award by ‘Sports Turkey Media’ in 2012, the ‘Scouting Specialist of the Year Award’ from ‘Marka Football’ in 2013, and the ‘Sample Scouting Department’ award at the Sportstec Innovation Conference in London in 2014. He leverages his deep knowledge of data and analytics to provide insightful commentary to a wide-ranging audience.
Founder of gutto.biz
Founded by K. Tarkan Batgun in Australia in 2007; gutto.biz provides the analytical know-how to international football industry; partnering with statistical application developers and video analysis experts. 10 years operational experience within the numbers game, gutto.biz is the only scouting development company in Turkey and within the surrounding geography, also servicing various industry stakeholders worldwide.
The company assists football team presidents, head coaches, FIFA Licensed player agents, federations in scouting education and transfer system implementations; servicing sports universities, press entities and investors in advising international relationship management; also creating unique statistical TV concepts to the international world of football.
Seminars
By providing tailor-made seminars and educational courses for football coaches from all levels, scouts, player agents, ex-football players, club sports directors and presidents, students of physical education & sports faculties and academics; expands the knowledge of the audience in order to build their own imaginations into practice.
Participants learn from different practices, however, are able to build analysis, scouting and transfer strategies by successfully integrating into their own world.
Awards
Revolutionising ‘Scouting Industry’ in Turkey by inventing possibly the worlds first ‘Foundation Level Scouting Courses” earned him “Sportsman of the Year in Technology” in 2012 by the “Sports Turkey Media”, received “Scouting Specialist of the Year Award” from “Marka Football” in 2013.
Bursaspor Scouting Department has been chosen as “Sample Scouting Department” at Sportstec Innovation Conference in London in 2014. Due to the fact that Batgun establishment of “Scouting Laboratory” brought the club more than 22.5 Million Euro in transfers.
Analysis & Commentating in TV Programs
Regularly commentating and analyzing games in television channels such as BeinSport, TRT Sports, A-Spor, BenguTurk TV; appearing on club TV channels.
Interpreting the meaning of numbers in football matches to the audience in an understandable way, explaining chosen positions by drawings, measuring the performance of players and teams by utilizing graphical interfaces.
Projects
Creating projects in scouting and match analysis, turn-key scouting department establishment initiatives, wireless application development in football, educating fans in analytics
Turning client’s ideas into easily managable projects is the core strength
News
Regular news about projects, meetings, conferences, educational seminars
Each step taken is transparent, everything done or achieved has been published and explained to the public
Press
All about articles and news in the media
What happened – How it happened – Why it happened
