Leggiamo il calcio attraverso i dati dal 2017.
Quando la football analytics era ancora una nicchia, noi la pubblicavamo già. Qui i nostri data scientist condividono metriche originali come la Gegenpressing Intensity e l'AERO, anteprime dei campionati, report di scouting e gli studi di validazione dietro XSEED: la storia della football intelligence, raccontata mentre accadeva.
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 […]
