No stone is left unturned in the quest for success in modern football.
Every aspect of every game and training session is poured over in detail in a bid to identify areas for improvement, as the margins between success and failure are so fine these days they are almost microscopic.
Last season demonstrated that point more than ever as the gap in the Championship table between Leicester City in the last play-off spot, on 68 points, and Peterborough, who were relegated, was just 14 points.
That is why clubs study statistics in great detail, and City do this as much as any other club.
How they interpret the data is down to manager Nigel Pearson and his staff, but there were some interesting statistics that came out of last season, some which are more useful than others.
For example, City made 13,547 successful passes during the campaign, with 2,535 of them coming from Danny Drinkwater.
Although Drinkwater made the most passes of any City player, it was fellow midfielder Andy King who possessed the highest pass completion rate, with 89 per cent.
The only player to have a 100 per cent pass completion rate in one game was David Nugent with 23 passes in the 2-1 win against Burnley.
However, Nugent was caught offside 23 times during the season, the most of any City player.
Not surprisingly, Anthony Knockaert made more dribbles than any other City player with 96, which was 26 per cent of all the side's dribbles.
But the Frenchman was not the most fouled City player. Surprisingly, that was Drinkwater.
In attack, Nugent finished City's top scorer with 14 league goals for the club, but it was strike partner Chris Wood who had the most shots on goal in one match, eight against Bristol City.
The game in which City had the most shots on goal was against Nottingham Forest on the final day of the season, when they had 31 goalscoring attempts.
Lloyd Dyer had the most assists during the campaign with 10, one more than Ben Marshall and two more than Knockaert.
The most corners City won was 16 against both Crystal Palace and Bolton at home, and their longest unbeaten run was eight, in December and January.
In defence, Kasper Schmeichel saved 75 per cent of the shots he faced during the campaign – that was 153 of the 204 shots he had to deal with – while full-back Ritchie De Laet made more tackles than any other City player, 173.
One area in which City have improved is discipline. They received only two red cards last season, shown to Zak Whitbread and Wes Morgan.
Morgan was the player who was penalised the most, 65 times. He was shown four yellow cards in total, and the most bookings City received in one game was four.
Of course, stats can be open to any interpretation and the only stat that really matters in football is the final score.
But, still, they make for interesting reading and might point to an aspect of City's play that could make all the difference next season.
