The fluidity of football is one of the main obstacles to analysis. Unlike baseball or cricket which are divided into discrete one-v-one plays, football plays consist of passing and dribbling sequences which [...]
The Big 5 UEFA teams that qualified for the 2018 World Cup arguably contained some of the very best players in Europe. Their average age was 26.9 years; in the 2014 World [...]
This post will describe some of the properties of possession sequences, using data from seasons 2015-2017 of the Big 5 European domestic leagues. In particular I will look at how the probability [...]
In my last post, I looked at passing performance and identified players with pass completion rates higher than expected, given the difficulty of the passes they attempted. This seemed to pass the [...]
