Football Crunching

Attributing xG allowed to individual defenders

Who let the xG in? (who? who, who?)

Introducing Marking Maps

In this post, I’ll look at how we can infer and visualize Marking…

Dummy events

Even with the increasing availability of tracking data, the most valuable work in…

Valuing Off-the-ball Movement

Movement is one of the most important dimensions of Football, but it is notoriously hard to measure.

Calculating Threat Potential from Positional Data

Using Voronoi Diagrams in Football

Football (soccer) is all about space, but football statistics…

The best team goals of the World Cup Group Stage

Defining Active Zones

Numerical Advantage and the search for key moments in a Play