August 22, 2019
VAR, What is it Good For?
As Edwin Starr famously said, VAR, what is it good for? Well, let's find out...
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Insights, research, and analysis on football analytics
November 21, 2018
Opta Pro Forum 2018
I finally wrote about the presentation I gave at the Opta Pro 2018 Forum....
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May 25, 2018
Automated Feature Engineering
I recently gave a presentation on automated feature engineering at MancML....
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September 11, 2017
Deep Learning in R Using Keras
I recently gave a presentation at the Manchester R Users Group on Deep Learning in R using Keras....
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July 17, 2017
An Alternatve to Radars for Visualising Football Data
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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March 11, 2017
Opta Pro Forum 2017
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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December 20, 2016
Opta Pro Forum 2016
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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June 30, 2016
A Footballer Recommendation Engine
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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April 29, 2016
Expected Goals and Uncertainty
My Twitter feed seems to be increasingly taken up with discussions of Expected Goals in football yet there always seems to be something important missing from the discussion, and that's uncertainty...
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March 21, 2016
Ranking Football Teams Using Google's Page Rank Algorithm
I've discussed various techniques for ranking football teams on my blog before, such as using Massey Ratings to account for strength of schedule, but I've not covered Google's PageRank yet...
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