Using Standard Deviation and Mean Absolute Deviation to rate Goalkeeper’s shot-stopping

Marc Lamberts
8 min readMar 22, 2024

For the last few years I’ve been dabbling with data in football, especially with data visuals that show performance or intention. For the most part I have only focused on that was familiar within the data and focused on representation of data and the manipulation of it. But since I’ve worked more and more with data in big datasets, I’ve also…

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Marc Lamberts

Academic | CAF A | Recruitment + data analysis consultant in football | Set pieces