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Attributing xG allowed to individual defenders

Attributing xG allowed to individual defenders

Who let the xG in? (who? who, who?)
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Introducing Marking Maps

Introducing Marking Maps

In this post, I’ll look at how we can infer and visualize Marking relationships by looking at tracking data.
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Dummy events

Dummy events

Even with the increasing availability of tracking data, the most valuable work in football analytics is still being done with events.
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Valuing Off-the-ball Movement

Valuing Off-the-ball Movement

Movement is one of the most important dimensions of Football, but it is notoriously hard to measure.
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Calculating Threat Potential from Positional Data

Calculating Threat Potential from Positional Data

Analytics people like visualizations, but do you know what they like more? Numbers.
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Using Voronoi Diagrams in Football

Using Voronoi Diagrams in Football

Football (soccer) is all about space, but football statistics mostly rely on individual actions with no context to its surroundings.
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The best team goals of the World Cup Group Stage

The best team goals of the World Cup Group Stage

In 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…
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Defining Active Zones

Defining Active Zones

Numerical Advantage and the search for key moments in a Play
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Beyond assists: The Modric Pass

Beyond assists: The Modric Pass

In the last post, we mentioned how Toby Alderweireld was crucial to Tottenham’s direct play style, because of his long passes that open up…
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How Do Spurs Play?

How Do Spurs Play?

Virtually Scouting a Football Team
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