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smarterscout: The Why in Analytics

Dan Altman, creator of smarterscout, discusses the big issues underlying football/soccer analytics and sports analytics in general. Dan asks why we use data, why we measure the things we do, and why w... Read more

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Ranked #1

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Q & A

Q & A

Dan answers questions from listeners, followers on social media, and smarterscout.com users on a wide variety of topics:... Read more

3 Jul 2020

26mins

Ranked #2

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Measuring style and skill

Measuring style and skill

Contributions to winning aren't the only things that football/soccer clubs might want to measure. Playing style has an i... Read more

25 Jun 2020

23mins

Ranked #3

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Expected goals from ball progression and tactical applications

Expected goals from ball progression and tactical applications

Each action during a match changes the probability of scoring, and these changes can become part of a model of ball prog... Read more

18 Jun 2020

19mins

Ranked #4

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Rating players with expected goals from shot creation

Rating players with expected goals from shot creation

Breaking down goal difference into its component parts shows how expected goals from shot creation – the chance of scori... Read more

11 Jun 2020

16mins

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Ranked #5

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The building blocks of a model of the game

The building blocks of a model of the game

There's an infinite number of mathematical models that might explain the game of football/soccer, but how can we strike ... Read more

4 Jun 2020

18mins

Ranked #6

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The basics (and basis) of metrics

The basics (and basis) of metrics

The first step in constructing a metric is deciding – and clearly specifying – the question to be answered by the data. ... Read more

26 May 2020

19mins

Ranked #7

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The foundation of trust and rationality

The foundation of trust and rationality

Using analytics effectively depends on trust and rationality. Dan discusses how to introduce analytics at football/socce... Read more

19 May 2020

19mins

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