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Monday, 29 January 2018

Data Revolution in Football: Some Thoughts

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I did this interview with James Lorenzo a while back for a series that the video team over at Football Whispers have been working o...
Thursday, 25 January 2018

LDA Model to Learn and Assign Team and Player Playing Style

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This post appeared first on the Data Science Blog of Football Whispers and showcases the work I do for the company. I wrote this pape...
Sunday, 14 May 2017

Paper: 'Flow Network Motifs Applied to Football Passing Data'

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I wrote this paper to be presented at MathSport 2017 Conference in Padua University in June. It's a bit heavy on the mathematics in c...
Thursday, 13 April 2017

What's the ideal length of passing motifs?

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In my last entry I pledged to answer this question using the 'repeatability' methodology I presented there. This will be a quick en...
Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Passing Network Autographs and Overshooting Style

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At the end of the last entry I touched on the trade-off between comparable structure and ‘granularity’ or ‘level of detail’ of football...
Tuesday, 14 March 2017

VIDEO: OptaPro Forum 2017 Talk on Passing Motifs

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A talk on some of my passing motifs work was selected for the OptaPro Forum 2017 which took place in Central London on February 8 th . You ...
Monday, 16 January 2017

Player Vectorised Representations: What player lists can we draw up with confidence?

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I love drawing up lists and rankings of players (who doesn’t?) and giving myself a big “confirmation bias” pat on the back when I see playe...