Category: Research & Analysis
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Winter Transfer Shockwaves: Breaking Down the 7 Biggest Moves of the Window
Key Insights: The Winter Market Recap: Bold Moves, Big Expectations The January transfer window never fails to surprise, and this year was no exception. While some clubs opted for strategic depth, others made headline-grabbing moves that could reshape the landscape of European football. From Kvaratskhelia’s sensational switch to PSG to Rashford’s unexpected transfer to Aston…
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Soccerment insights: 2.Bundesliga: A Fierce Battle at the Top – 9 Teams Within 6 Points
Key Insights: 9 Teams, 6 Points: An Unprecedented Title Race The 2. Bundesliga has become one of the most thrilling leagues in Europe this season, with an intense title race. After 19 games, no fewer than nine teams are separated by just six points at the top of the table. As shown in the image…
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Soccerment Insights:The Age and Youth Balance: A Deep Dive into Football’s Developmental Trends
Key Insights: The Age and Youth Conundrum Across Football Leagues This scatter plot provides a fascinating lens into the dynamics of youth integration across football leagues, juxtaposing the average age of each league against the percentage of minutes played by Under-21 players. The findings are insightful, highlighting the leagues that truly invest in nurturing young…
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Soccerment Insights: Finding Rodri’s Replacement for Manchester City with Soccerment’s AI Scouting Tool
Key Insights: – Rodri’s role is fundamental in Guardiola’s system, combining passing precision, defensive solidity, and possession control.– The injury that ruled out the Ballon d’or holder for the rest of the season poses a significant tactical challenge for Manchester City.– Thanks to our scouting tool, we identified potential replacements, all aged between 20 and…
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AERO: a new aerial skill metric
In this blog post, we introduce our new Aerial Elo Rating Optimization (AERO) index, a new metric focused on aerial skill. Aerial skill metrics and the case for an Elo rating Aerial duels can be a key event in football on both ends of the pitch, and the relative skill between defenders and forwards in…
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One-twos: a new metric for associative ball progression and chance creation
Ball progression and chance creation are key phases of play in football, which can be achieved in several ways. In this article, we introduce a new metric which quantifies a specific mode of associative ball progression and chance creation: one-twos. We describe our empirical definition of one-two in event data and characterize the resulting data…
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Introducing Gegenpressing Intensity (GPI)
Gegenpressing, or counterpressing, is now a well-established strategy in many possession-based teams. To capture this aspect of the game, we introduce a new metric, called Gegenpressing Intensity (GPI), which measures the fraction of times a team immediately attempts to regain the ball after losing possession in attacking areas, rather than falling back. We find that…
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Shot quality and results in football
We investigate the link between shot quality, as measured by the team average xG per shot, and both results (in terms of wins) and performance (measured with our Expected Points model), for the top 5 European leagues. We find a strong link between xG per shot difference (xG per shot minus xG per shot conceded,…
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The Very Exclusive xOVA Club
We introduced Expected Offensive Value Added, or ‘xOVA’, to facilitate scouting for creative and skilled players, who are able to have a great impact in the final third of the pitch. Therefore, forwards, wingers and attacking midfielders top our xOVA charts. For example, in our database, the highest seasonal xOVA (22.27) was produced by Lionel…
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Measuring pressing success: Buildup Disruption Percentage (BDP)
Pressing is a fundamental part of many teams’ game plan in modern football. At the same time, it is difficult to measure it accurately using event data. While PPDA is certainly a very useful metric, in our view it would be advisable to complement it with different, indirect measurements of how teams are able to…
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