Ricardo TavaresClustering articles using LLM embeddings — the easy wayEmbeddings are a less known but really neat feature of Large Language Models, and they’re becoming super easy to use thanks to efforts…5 min read·Dec 10, 2023--1--1
Ricardo TavaresinFootball CrunchingAttributing xG allowed to individual defendersWho let the xG in? (who? who, who?)5 min read·Mar 14, 2021----
Ricardo TavaresinFootball CrunchingIntroducing Marking MapsIn this post, I’ll look at how we can infer and visualize Marking relationships by looking at tracking data.5 min read·Jun 25, 2020----
Ricardo TavaresinFootball CrunchingDummy eventsEven with the increasing availability of tracking data, the most valuable work in football analytics is still being done with events.2 min read·May 25, 2020----
Ricardo TavaresinFootball CrunchingValuing Off-the-ball MovementMovement is one of the most important dimensions of Football, but it is notoriously hard to measure.5 min read·Jan 13, 2020--1--1
Ricardo TavaresinFootball CrunchingCalculating Threat Potential from Positional DataAnalytics people like visualizations, but do you know what they like more? Numbers.3 min read·Aug 9, 2019--3--3
Ricardo TavaresinFootball CrunchingUsing Voronoi Diagrams in FootballFootball (soccer) is all about space, but football statistics mostly rely on individual actions with no context to its surroundings.4 min read·Jul 14, 2019--1--1
Ricardo TavaresinFootball CrunchingThe best team goals of the World Cup Group StageIn a World Cup of Penalties, Set Pieces and long distance screamers, team play hasn’t taken the forefront yet, but we still saw some great…4 min read·Jun 29, 2018----
Ricardo TavaresinFootball CrunchingDefining Active ZonesNumerical Advantage and the search for key moments in a Play3 min read·Jun 30, 2017----
Ricardo TavaresinFootball CrunchingWhy We Need Positional Data in Football23 April 2017. El Clásico. Real were one man down and losing against one of the best teams in the world, with less than 15 minutes to go…1 min read·Jun 13, 2017----