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Comparing Players Using Cluster Analysis

Published on February 10, 2014 by Martin Eastwood

As there were a couple of presentations at the recent Opta Pro Forum talking about identifying player similarities I thought I’d give a quick example of how to do something similar using k-means cl...

EPL 2013/2014: Football Pythagorean So Far

Published on January 20, 2014 by Martin Eastwood

Welome back! Now that I'm no longer part of Onside Analysis I'm free to start blogging again so let's start off by taking a look at how my football Pythagorean is doing for the English Premier Leag...

UEFA Champions League – Route To The Final

Published on September 30, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

With the UEFA Champions League group stage now underway I took a look at what it typically takes for teams to reach the final.

Analysing Football Teams Using Cluster Analysis and Principal Component Analysis

Published on August 30, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

The amount of football data available is growing rapidly – with every passing week of the season more matches are played and even more data gets collected. This is great as it allows us to increase...

Anouncement

Published on June 19, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

You may have noticed that my blogging has slowed down over the past few weeks and the reason is that I have joined Onside Analysis as a computational statistician.

Betting With The Eastwood Index And Kelly Criterion

Published on May 23, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

I demonstrated in my last post that the odds calculated using the Eastwood Index were slightly more accurate than the bookmakers over the course of the football season. My next goal is to work out ...

Did The Eastwood Index Beat The Bookmakers?

Published on May 21, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

It’s the end of the season so it’s time to review how the Eastwood Index performed over the year and how it compared with the bookmakers...

EI Match Probabilities for the English Premier League

Published on May 17, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

We have finally reached the end of the season so for the last time in 2012-2013 here are the Eastwood Index’s (EI) probabilities for the English Premier League...

EI Match Probabilities for the English Premier League

Published on May 10, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

Here are the latest match probabilities for the English Premier League calculated using the Eastwood Index (EI)...

MLS Player Salaries: 2013

Published on May 10, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

The latest Major League Soccer (MLS) salaries were released recently by the MLS Players’ Union so I thought I would post a quick summary of the data...

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