Situation maps – some examples

Situation maps – some examples

Warning: This post is a bit more technical than my usual fare! The most esoteric addition to the ’20 games in’ report - which the feedback I received suggested needed further explanation – was the Situation Map, so I thought I’d share a few examples of how they’re used. I created them out of a need to compactly … Continue reading »

Attack & defence graphics – 1st January 2013

Attack & defence graphics – 1st January 2013

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 »

Video: Minute-by-minute tables

Video: Minute-by-minute tables

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 »

BSP attack & defence – 11th December

BSP attack & defence – 11th December

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 »

Report: 20 Games In

Report: 20 Games In

Slightly later than intended – unfortunately a shade after the 21st round of fixtures thanks to a perfect storm of work and holiday commitments – here is the sequel to the “First 10 Games” report, incorporating even more statistics for each of the 72 Football League clubs. The file size weighs in at 2.4MB, so … Continue reading »

A quick look at Total Shots Ratio

A quick look at Total Shots Ratio

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 »

Football League predictions: 13-15 October

I thought it might be interesting to see if the data in my ‘first 10 games’ report has any predictive use by testing it on this weekend’s fixtures. I’m aware that if I get more wrong than I would have done simply by tossing a coin for each match then I’ll have humiliatingly invalidated my … Continue reading »

Report: The first 10 games

Report: The first 10 games

I’m proud to present what will hopefully be the first of many club-by-club reports. This one covers the first 10 (or so) games of the new season and features a page of analysis for each Football League club. I’ve no idea how to embed this in my blog, so below is a very low tech … Continue reading »