An announcement

You may have noticed a slowing down in my output lately. The reason for this is that I’ve recently secured a full time football analysis role (which I’m very excited about) and hence a lot of my free time has been absorbed by preparing for it. I’m still not sure what’ll happen to this blog … Continue reading »

A quick look at headed goals

A quick look at headed goals

I’ve been experimenting with alternative uses for the scatter plotting engine I built for the attack and defence graphics and wanted to explore what other aspects of performance can be compared effectively in this way. Combining the Press Association match data published on the BBC Football website with the fruits of my own video analysis I’ve compiled a … Continue reading »

Predictive previews: Football League – 12 Feb 2013

Following on from the Championship-only dry run at the weekend, here are predictive previews for all of tomorrow evening’s Football League fixtures. Let’s just hope that none of them get cancelled. In case you missed the previous post which contains a more detailed explanation, these have been embedded as a PDF so that I could work some … Continue reading »

Attacking & defensive effectiveness, incorporating form

Attacking & defensive effectiveness, incorporating form

Introducing form-weighted averages When updating the attack and defence effectiveness graphics throughout the season, I’ve been increasingly mindful of the need to incorporate a team’s form into any analysis of their performance. Now that we’re over halfway through the season it seems a bit of a stretch that the average values that drive the graphics … Continue reading »

Predictive previews: Championship, 8-9 February

I’ve tentatively re-initiated my predictive previews to see whether there’s any mileage in making them a regular feature, starting with this weekend’s Championship games but with the intention of expanding to cover all Football League divisions. I wanted to make them a bit more visually engaging than the standard blog format would allow, so I’ve … Continue reading »

Visual tables for the Football League

I saw a tweet yesterday evening from @sportingintel which utilised the fantastic Cann Table method of visually separating teams in the league table by the number of points won. This provoked me to unearth and complete one of my many half-finished projects, which takes this a step further to correct for teams having played different numbers … Continue reading »

Attacking & Defensive effectiveness: EPL to BSP

Attacking & Defensive effectiveness: EPL to BSP

Whenever I post something about the top flight, which is contrary to the overall mission of this blog, I like to balance things out by doing something for fans of BSP clubs. Following the approach used in yesterday’s post for 5 European top divisions, here are another set of monster charts comparing all English teams … Continue reading »