The 21/ DSTV Expected Points (xPts) table – Feb 2022
We have previously mentioned that ‘sometimes the league table does lie’. Football is a low-scoring sport, which invariably means that luck does play its part and teams …
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The 2021/22 DSTV Expected Points (xPts) table
Over the past few seasons we had mentioned before that ‘Sometimes the league table does lie’. Football is a low-scoring sport, which invariably means that …
Let’s talk about cultural changes in football…
Analytics in football is no longer something new. Expected Goals is now everywhere and most club staff and fans have a pretty thorough understanding of …
Media Visualisation Launch
We have been kept extremely busy at Laduma Analytics over the last few months. Football matches have been ticking over at such quick intervals, it …
How many Players has your club used in the league this season?
The league is back after a weekend of Nedbank Cup and CAF action, so we had a quick look at the number of players that …
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. As …
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 nodes) …
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 the …
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 seas …
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 insightful …