Football CultureTeam AnalyticsUncategorized
MTN 8 Quarter Finals Review – Possession is not everything.
The new football season is in full swing. We have had the opening round of the Betway Premiership and this past weekend the MTN...
Team AnalyticsThe TeamUncategorized
Why AmaZulu FC Need to Find Balance This Season
The 2026/27 Betway Premiership season kicks off this weekend and one team that will look to replicate their previous season is AmaZulu FC. The...
Football Data ScienceSpecial FeaturesTeam AnalyticsUncategorized
Resurrection or Reset? Unpacking Kaizer Chiefs’ Data Ahead of the 2026/27 Campaign
Let’s not sugarcoat it: being a Kaizer Chiefs fan over the last decade has been a test of endurance. At the end of May...
League Analysis
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...
League Analysis
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...