A while back it was suggested that I use Tableau Public to make my work more interactive, so I thought I’d give it a go using the celebrated scatter plots (the traditional versions of which I’ll be updating later today via Twitter). What I’ve managed to come up with An interactive version that allows you … Continue reading »
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 »
My best-laid plans for weekly posts were once again undone by work commitments, but the least I can do is to update my attack and defence effectiveness graphics. I’ve kept the form weightings but have decided to use arrows as these are visually less confusing. The principle is the same as explained here: The coloured … Continue reading »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
In the 20 games report I use pitches with overlaid bubbles to show where each team’s goals scored and conceded from open play tend to come from, but it’s a bit tricky to flick between each club’s page to get a sense of comparison. I’ve attempted to rectify that here, with some simple sorted bars … Continue reading »
First of all, Happy New Year! I missed a lot of football over the festive season due to holidays, so things will be a little bit quieter while I catch up with it all. I thought that it was worth taking the time to update the attacking and defensive effectiveness graphics (explained in the ‘Explanations’ … Continue reading »
A surprisingly popular aside last season was an animated look at how the Championship league table would be different if matches ended at specific minutes, so I’ve brought this up to date, refined it and expanded it to cover all 3 divisions. The video below advances time minute-by-minute, so it starts off showing how the … Continue reading »
