Category: Sports

• February 13, 2020

  On Goalkeeping Data, Scouting and Evidence Based Coaching

  Finally this week I got around to doing something I’d been meaning to do for ages. Pull all the data from games to see what a goalkeeper spends his time doing during a match. These are the on-ball actions of keepers in the Premier League so far this season: ‘Aerial’, ‘Ball Recovery’, ‘Ball touch’, ‘Challenge’,…
• October 27, 2019

  Why Possession Value Is Bollocks

  Expected goals. Expected assists. Expected passes. How likely is a shot from here to be a goal? How likely will a pass from here to there turn into a goal if the guy receiving the ball shoots? How likely will a pass from here to there be successful? All models have flaws and these guys…