Sports Analytics

So, with your standard fantasy football lineups, you have the following: 1 QB, 2 RBs, 2 WRs, TE, FLEX, DEF, and a kicker. Over time, we have seen a new flex spot added into the mix: the superflex. The superflex spot is one of the most unique aspects of fantasy…

Veo are largely about allowing grassroots football teams to better analyse their performance through data derived from video. StatsBomb help recruitment departments unearth talent, often from the lower leagues, by using data that is also derived from video. How StatsBomb gets its data As I understand it, StatsBomb can only derive data from ‘dirty’ broadcast…

The very first step of understanding team performance is to measure and decompose a team’s overall success of each season. Whether it is top-down (e.g. overall team performance) or bottom-up (e.g. player performances aggregated to team-level) approach, a holistic and fair evaluation is required to evaluate each team. Measures like…

Soccer is Back, we missed the fun. After a few months of enjoying my tv series, big brother, cartoons for the kids, football or soccer is back and the guys are fully occupying the sitting room. Personally, I love football and usually watch with the guys, the screaming, the anxiety…

In my previous article, I demonstrated a method to categorize NBA players into various offensive roles with clustering algorithms, based on what they did on offense rather than how they performed [1]. In this article, I used the cluster labels I generated to model the offensive efficiency of lineups in…

I have always loved to watch the UEFA Champions League and the Big 5 leagues. Naturally, when you love football and data science you start to combine both these passions. This analysis today focuses on the summarized data of the 98 teams from the Big 5 leagues. The data was…

No, this isn’t the Krabby Patty Secret Formula, and no, this blog isn’t sponsored by Mr. Krabs nor Plankton. This is a formula/test I created that can be used to grade any fanbase in the world, but it works best with NFL fans. I call it the REAL LAP test…