Category: "Cluster Analysis"

Comparing Players Using Cluster Analysis

Published on February 10, 2014 by Martin Eastwood

As there were a couple of presentations at the recent Opta Pro Forum talking about identifying player similarities I thought I’d give a quick example of how to do something similar using k-means cl...

Analysing Football Teams Using Cluster Analysis and Principal Component Analysis

Published on August 30, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

The amount of football data available is growing rapidly – with every passing week of the season more matches are played and even more data gets collected. This is great as it allows us to increase...