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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
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26mins
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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
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23mins
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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
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19mins
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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
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16mins
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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
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18mins
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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
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19mins
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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
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19mins