Leemos el fútbol a través de los datos desde 2017.
Cuando la football analytics todavía era un nicho, nosotros ya la publicábamos. Aquí nuestros data scientists comparten métricas originales como Gegenpressing Intensity y AERO, previas de las ligas, informes de scouting y los estudios de validación detrás de XSEED: la historia de la football intelligence, contada mientras sucedía.
Ball possession in European football (part 1)
This is part one of a trilogy of posts dedicated to the role of ball possession in football. In this post, we look at how ball possession is calculated and how the focus on ball possession is often (not always) a synonym of success. We also start digging into the bidirectional causation problem: do the teams play […]
Crossing: An effective strategy?
Crossing is still very much used by the top European teams (18.6 per match, on average). However, we doubt the efficiency of such an attacking strategy. We calculate that only 1 every 64 crosses is directly translated into a goal. Is it worth trying? We conclude it is not, unless you have someone like Mauro […]
