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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...

Sharing xG Using Multi-touch Attribution Modelling

Published on November 23, 2019 by Martin Eastwood

Reattributing xG using multi-touch attribution modelling...

VAR, What is it Good For?

Published on August 22, 2019 by Martin Eastwood

As Edwin Starr famously said, VAR, what is it good for? Well, let's find out...

Opta Pro Forum 2018

Published on November 21, 2018 by Martin Eastwood

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

Automated Feature Engineering

Published on May 25, 2018 by Martin Eastwood

I recently gave a presentation on automated feature engineering at MancML....

Deep Learning in R Using Keras

Published on September 11, 2017 by Martin Eastwood

I recently gave a presentation at the Manchester R Users Group on Deep Learning in R using Keras....

An Alternatve to Radars for Visualising Football Data

Published on July 17, 2017 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...

Opta Pro Forum 2017

Published on March 11, 2017 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....

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....

A Footballer Recommendation Engine

Published on June 30, 2016 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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