Expected Defensive Threat Reduction (xDEF): measuring how defensive players reduce attacking…It’s finished! That’s my inital thought when I started writing this article and that sentiment comes from weeks of cracking my brain. I…3d ago13d ago1
Passing roles: using pass direction data to establish tactical rolesIn data departments all over elite sports and in football in particular, we create and develop metrics. To make them actionable, we…Jan 141Jan 141
Finding similar players: Cosine similarity, Euclidean Distance & Pearson CorrelationPeople often ask me what gives me the most joy about working in football and I honestly can remember when I gave the same answer twice…Jan 53Jan 53
Goalplayer Value Added (GV+): measuring passing contribution in the build-up for goalkeepersIt has been a hot minute since we spoke about goalkeeper data did we not? Goalkeeper data is not as evolved as field players. The data that…Dec 31, 20241Dec 31, 20241
Adapting Basketball Data Analytics to Football: Spatial Dynamics of Man-Marking with Average…It might seem that I’m incredibly productive with many articles coming out of my pen — or fingers if you will- these last few months, but…Dec 28, 20245Dec 28, 20245
Introducing SPER: A way of rating teams based on Expected Goals Difference from Set PiecesThis year would be the year that I would immerse myself in set pieces. I know that is something I’ve said a lot and it was one of my goals…Dec 20, 20245Dec 20, 20245
Quantifying Off-Ball Contributions in Football Using Network Analysis: The Off-Ball Impact Score…This might be my best and scariest project up to date. Scary because it can be full of flaws, but also best because I feel this will change…Dec 15, 20241Dec 15, 20241
Conservative Pass Index: measuring how risk-averse players are in their passingData without context is absolutely useless. Data in isolation is also useless. It might sound strange to hear these words from someone who…Dec 14, 20242Dec 14, 20242
Correlation between shooting angles and Expected Goals (xG)Expected goals. We have been discussing its use for years in the data analytics space, not only in football of course, but also in spaces…Dec 5, 2024Dec 5, 2024
Measuring players’ consistent xG performances with Coefficient of Variation (CV)In media and online scouting reports, we often look at quality. How good is a player at this and that? We look at the quality of the clubs…Nov 24, 20241Nov 24, 20241
