Lire le football à travers les données depuis 2017.
Quand la football analytics n'était encore qu'une niche, nous la publiions déjà. Ici, nos data scientists partagent des métriques originales comme la Gegenpressing Intensity et l'AERO, des analyses d'avant-saison, des rapports de scouting et les études de validation derrière XSEED : l'histoire de la football intelligence, racontée au moment où elle s'écrivait.
Harry Kane, lauréat du Ballon d'Or 2026 : pourquoi les données en font le meilleur finisseur
Harry Kane, Ballon d'Or 2026 : 73 buts en 65 matchs. Les données SICS Atlas et xValue en font le meilleur finisseur d'Europe.
Les oubliés du Ballon d'Or 2026 : Doué, Raphinha et Enzo Fernández au prisme de xValue
Doué, Raphinha et Enzo Fernández absents du Ballon d'Or 2026 : les données xValue de Soccerment, partagées avec Fabrizio Romano, évaluent leur mérite.
Présentation de xValue
Soccerment Research présente xValue, qui évalue chaque événement avec ballon selon son effet sur les chances de marquer et d'encaisser.
Lire la saison 2025/26 à travers xPoints
Les cinq championnats nationaux les plus importants du football européen sont désormais terminés.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Soccerment's Expected Points model
Expected Goals (xG) models allow us to quantify the chance quality of individual shots. This gives us the chance to quantify the probability of a team winning, losing or drawing the match, based on the two team’s total xG during the match. In turn, this can be translated into an expectation value for points gained […]
Expected Threat
One of the cornerstones of measuring offensive contributions in football is based on a very simple fact: the likelihood of scoring a goal in the next few actions depends heavily on the distance to goal at any given moment. It follows, therefore, that the most valuable actions, besides those directly related to scoring such as […]
