Lily Wood-BlakeCrediting the Pass Recipient: Grading Pass Reception by DifficultyWhen Liverpool played the formidable Manchester City last weekend, the breakthrough came when goalkeeper Alisson spotted Mohamed Salah…Oct 25, 20221Oct 25, 20221
Lily Wood-BlakeACID: Towards a Framework for Player AnalysisI have been considering a simple framework for assessing footballers that can be applied regardless of your mode of analysis. This…Sep 20, 2022Sep 20, 2022
Lily Wood-BlakeInvisible Action: 5 Metrics to Capture Off Ball ValueThe dominant paradigm of football data analysis is events data. Events are defined in relation to the ball — did the player pass the ball…Aug 27, 20223Aug 27, 20223
Lily Wood-BlakeProbabilistic Scouting in FootballInitial thoughts on the possibility of creating football (soccer) probabilistic scouting software similar to Nate Silver’s PECOTAJul 22, 20221Jul 22, 20221