Articles Tagged "Player Analytics"

Which Young Players Will be Stars?

Published on May 19, 2021 by Martin Eastwood

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

Predicting Player Career Trajectories

Published on May 03, 2021 by Martin Eastwood

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

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....

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....

PlayerRatings And False Negatives

Published on April 23, 2015 by Martin Eastwood

My last article looked at how well my PlayerRatings model predict...

Backtesting PlayerRatings

Published on April 09, 2015 by Martin Eastwood

Following my last article discussing my Read More

PlayerRatings And Team Quality

Published on March 09, 2015 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 o...

PlayerRating: A Bayesian Method For Evaluating Football Players

Published on February 26, 2015 by Martin Eastwood

I originally submitted the idea behind this article to the recent Opta Pro Forum and although it was turned down I thought I’d write it up anyway incase anyone else was interested in the results......

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...