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...
Special Features
Updated News & Dashboards
By Alex Rathke The PSL season is well underway and we have already had a few interesting moments. For one, Dan Malesela was sacked...
Football TacticsUncategorized
Winning Metrics in the PSL – part 2
By Alex Rathke **This post originally appeared on City Press’s Sports pages on June 11th, 2018. If you missed the issue, we have added...
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...