Tag: Advanced Metrics

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 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...
Football Tactics

Winning Metrics in the PSL

By Alex Rathke **This post originally appeared on City Press’s Sports pages on June 3rd, 2018. If you missed the issue, we have added...
Football Data Science

Football Analytics

By Alex Rathke The Rise of Analytics in Football Up until ten years ago or so soccer was often left to “real football” men....