A New Way to Measure Keepers' Shot Stopping: Post-Shot Expected Goals
Let’s talk about stopping shots. One of the most challenging aspects of data analysis in football is figuring out just...
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Let’s talk about stopping shots. One of the most challenging aspects of data analysis in football is figuring out just...
In May 2015 Bournemouth clinched top spot in the Championship and achieved promotion to England's top division for the first time...
Back in May I wrote a blog about ‘xG added’, a metric that measures the value of passes (and dribbles)....
I first set eyes on Jack when he was a lad at the 2012 Olympics. He was 19, a mixture...
This piece comes in two forms: the written piece here and the video below. If you feel less initiated into analytics,...
After what felt like a lifetime of Alex Ferguson's humourless and entrenched worldview and relentless successes, expressing positivity towards Man...
Every year in the Premier League, around November (though increasingly it seems earlier), the press starts to talk about the...
With Middlesbrough cruelly confined to another year in the Championship, Patrick Bamford returning to parent club Chelsea and Jelle Vossen's...
What's new? At £4m, Muhamed Besic comes in as a low-budget, high-potential signing to 'bolster' midfield and defence. Flying...
Once the last ball of the season has been kicked and a few hundred Premier League footballers have flown off...
During the short time that I've been involved in football analytics I've learned a few things about match prediction, or more specifically...
This week UEFA revealed plans to make a case for an end to the ‘triple punishment’ of a penalty, a...
