Category: "PlayerRating"

Which Young Players Will be Stars?

Published on May 19, 2021 by Martin Eastwood

Using my Player Ratings model to identify the best footballing prospects...

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Predicting Player Career Trajectories

Published on May 03, 2021 by Martin Eastwood

Predicting what player's potential career trajectories look like...

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Opta Pro Forum 2016

Published on December 20, 2016 by Martin Eastwood

With the 2017 Opta Pro Forum rapidly approaching, I thought it was about time I transcribed my presentation from the previous event....

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It’s Not Just The Money: Quality of Signings Suggest China Could Become a Major Power in Club Football

Published on February 29, 2016 by Martin Eastwood

John Burn-Murdoch and the Financial Times have used my PlayerRatings model to analyse the recent flux of players moving to teams in the Chinese Super League - you can read the full article Read More

PlayerRatings And False Negatives

Published on April 23, 2015 by Martin Eastwood

My last article looked at how well my PlayerRatings model predict...

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Backtesting PlayerRatings

Published on April 09, 2015 by Martin Eastwood

Following my last article discussing my Read More

PlayerRatings And Team Quality

Published on March 09, 2015 by Martin Eastwood

My previous article introduced PlayerRatings, a mathematical model I’ve been working on over the past few months to quantify the ability of individual footballers. One of the nice characteristics o...

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PlayerRating: A Bayesian Method For Evaluating Football Players

Published on February 26, 2015 by Martin Eastwood

I originally submitted the idea behind this article to the recent Opta Pro Forum and although it was turned down I thought I’d write it up anyway incase anyone else was interested in the results......

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