Using my Player Ratings model to identify the best footballing prospects...
Predicting what player's potential career trajectories look like...
I finally wrote about the presentation I gave at the Opta Pro 2018 Forum....
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...
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....
With the 2017 Opta Pro Forum rapidly approaching, I thought it was about time I transcribed my presentation from the previous event....
With the transfer window well under way I thought I'd discuss my footballer recommendation engine for identifying potential transfer targets....
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...
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...
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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