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 »
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 »
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 »
Seeing as the attack and defence charts for the Football League have proven so popular, I thought I’d throw together a version comparing as many top flight divisions as possible. Unfortunately I could only find sufficiently granular free data for England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France, but this is still plenty to be getting on … 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 »
After providing a glut of statistics for the Football League, I felt that the least I could do for the Blue Square Bet Premier would be to update the attacking and defensive effectiveness plots, shown here with movements since the end of October. As usual I’ll offer a few observations for each. Clicking these will … Continue reading »
Things have been a bit quieter than usual here as I’ve been building some extra functionality for the 20 games report (due out in early December), but I though it was about time to revisit the attacking and defensive effectiveness graphics for each division. Click the Explanations link from the menu above if you’ve not … Continue reading »
After some decidedly mixed yet encouraging results while using my data for predictive purposes, I’ve been doing some reading about how other analytical bloggers have approached this. I was interested to read about Total Shots Ratio (TSR), particularly in this post by James Grayson, and its ability to predict future performance. What I like about it is … Continue reading »
