Football Analytics

This article will discuss a metric called IQV that I originally created in March. If you are new to this concept or want a refresher on what IQV is, I strongly suggest you view this article (or this Twitter thread) that I created first about it — where I used…

Quantifying Pressing Effectiveness in Football with A Novel Metric Revealing the Trade-off Between Ball Recovery and Defensive Structure Introduction The introduction of the research paper highlights the importance of pressing in football defense and its impact on a team’s success. Effective pressing can disrupt opponents’ play, but it also poses risks…

SkillCorner recently launched Game Intelligence — a new product to add to our existing XY tracking and physical data. — Game Intelligence takes football insight to a new level by merging event and tracking data to evaluate the intelligence and effectiveness of key football concepts such as: A player’s off-the-ball movement Their on-ball decision making and passing risk/reward profile Their ability to execute when under pressure

Surely in recent years, the term xG has been familiar in the match statistics through tv or social media. xG means expected goals and measures the quality of a shot based on several variables such as assist type and originates from a data event such as a shoot. Expected Goals…

Introduction: The World Cup football competition stands as a monumental event in the sporting world, captivating billions of fans and uniting nations through a shared love for the beautiful game. Held every four years, this prestigious tournament showcases the finest talent from around the globe and serves as a platform…

With the advent of technology and the evolution of the application of analysis tools and mathematical models to football, and of course AI, we’ve seen the spectrum of football analysis grow and provide coaches, managers and staff with added insights to make more informed decisions on the pitch. This generation…

I am an AC Milan fan. Last night, our “cousins” Inter Milan kicked my team out of the Champions League with an aggregate score of 3–0. To move on, I decided to write this blog post on how I would examine Inter Milan’s possibilities in light of Real Madrid’s forthcoming…

A Markov Decision Process (MDP) approach combined with probabilistic model checking to analyze defensive strategies in soccer. — The article “Reasoning about Goal-Directed Policies in Professional Soccer using Probabilistic Model Checking” by Maaike Van Roy, Wen-Chi Yang, Luc De Raedt, and Jesse Davis presents a novel Markov decision process (MDP) for modeling the behavior of a soccer team that possesses the ball. The authors employ techniques from probabilistic…

Learning Data Science with football data: episode 1 — Italian version here. Can you see the relation between expected Goals (xG) and expected Goals Against (xGA)? Maybe the plot will make more sense if we add the name of the teams: As…