by soccerlogic-gianni | Apr 29, 2018 | shot statistics, Soccer analytics, Sports Analytics
Introduction In this post we compare the shot performance of M Salah at Roma and Livepool. The objective is to find statistically significant (p<0.05) and non significant (but revealing) differences in his performance while at these clubs Significant differences,... by soccerlogic-gianni | Apr 1, 2017 | MLS 2016-17, shot statistics, Soccer analytics, Sports Analytics
Introduction With the 2017 MLS season approaching, I am going to take a look at last year (2016-17 season) results and in particular at the attacking effectiveness of Teams and Players. One way to measure this is to compute the percentage (%) of Shots that are... by soccerlogic-gianni | Sep 15, 2016 | Soccer analytics, Sports Analytics
Football performance is judged by analysing video and data from a match, or from many matches. But do video and data provide all the information we need to judge performance accurately? I don’t think so. A vital piece of information is missing: the head coach... by soccerlogic-gianni | Aug 9, 2016 | Passing sequences, Possession chain analysis, Soccer analytics, Soccer match analysis, Sports Analytics
BackgroundFew days ago, I tweeted that the ‘newer concept’ of ‘possession chains’ proposed by Marek Kwiatkowski (@statlurker) in his latest blog* was ‘very familiar to me’. I also attached text taken from my website (www.soccerlogic.com), where I write...