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Player Analytics Articles


Which Young Players Will be Stars?.

Posted: 2021-05-19 19:30:00+01:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

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

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Predicting Player Career Trajectories.

Posted: 2021-05-03 19:30:00+01:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

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

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Opta Pro Forum 2018.

Posted: 2018-11-21 19:30:00+00:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

I finally wrote about the presentation I gave at the Opta Pro 2018 Forum....

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An Alternatve to Radars for Visualising Football Data.

Posted: 2017-07-17 19:30:00+01:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

I've long been critical of the use of radar plots for visualizing football data and was recently challenged by a reader of this blog to come up with a better alternative so here we go...

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Opta Pro Forum 2017.

Posted: 2017-03-11 19:30:00+00:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

I wrote up the poster presentation I gave at the 2017 Opta Pro Forum for the Opta Pro blog looking at using machine learning to quantify footballer's decisions....

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Opta Pro Forum 2016.

Posted: 2016-12-20 19:30:00+00:00. | 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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A Footballer Recommendation Engine.

Posted: 2016-06-30 19:30:00+01:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

With the transfer window well under way I thought I'd discuss my footballer recommendation engine for identifying potential transfer targets....

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PlayerRatings And False Negatives.

Posted: 2015-04-23 19:30:00+01:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

My last article looked at how well my PlayerRatings model predicted which young players would go on to have successful careers. This time we explore false negatives - which top players may have wrongly had low PlayerRatings in their youth...

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Backtesting PlayerRatings.

Posted: 2015-04-09 19:30:00+01:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

Following my last article discussing my PlayerRating model for quantifying footballers, JackIO challenged me to test the model by looking at what young players it recommended...

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PlayerRatings And Team Quality.

Posted: 2015-03-09 19:30:00+00:00. | 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 of this approach is that player ratings can be aggregated together to create team ratings...

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