Football Tactics
Possession adjusted stats
Possession-adjusted or PAdj statistics is a more robust method to calculate the true measure of defensive statistical contributions by a player in the game....
Football Tactics
Passing Networks
What are Passing Networks? Without becoming too scientific, it is a graph which consists of dots and lines connected together. Each dot (known as...
Football Culture
How clubs can be efficient in the Transfer Market
The second transfer window of the 2020/21 domestic season will get underway on January 18th and last until the 15th of February 2021. Whilst...
Special Features
How Joseph Zinnbauer reintegrated Luvuyo Memela
By Laduma Analytics Orlando Pirates 2019/20 The Orlando Pirates “ship” has navigated two types of waters this season. First came the rough and stormy...
Player Analytics
Finding the gems in the haystack…How do we do it?
By @AlexRathke I recently came across an article titled Data as a Product vs Data as a Service by Justin Gage. It was an...
Special Features
Laduma Analytics Mentorship Programme 2020
One of the key aims of this mentorship programme is to create an opportunity for aspiring football analysts who may not have the available...
League Analysis
How the league table lies…
On Friday evening, we ran a poll on Twitter asking PSL fans their thoughts on whether the league table lies....
Football Data Science
Expected Points
By Alex Rathke, This week, we decided to go back to basics and examine a singular match from earlier this season. By using Expected...
Player Analytics
Player Visuals – Radar Charts
By Alex Rathke, Here at Laduma Analytics, we are always on the look-out to represent visuals for teams and players. Over the last year,...
Team Analytics
Team Dashboards
By Alex Rathke Yesterday, we released our first ever team focused dashboard. This was posted on our Tableau Public page and allows users to...