Maand: juli 2024
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Differences in shooting styles across Regionalliga — Germany’s 4th tier
“Data does tell facts and therefore always is the truth” — how often I’ve heard this, I can’t even count the number. I think this is such a weird way of looking at data, as data is a construct so if anything, it’s always subjective and prone to bias. One of the cases is how…
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The idea behind the threat: Creating Pass Progression Score (PPS)
What has always fascinated me is the way we look at football players and the value we give those players. There is a pecking order of course, because in terms of the general football audience, we tend to value entertainment. Entertainment is something you can directly compare to the ones making the goals (which is…
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Proactive vs Reactive defence score: Measuring in what way defenders like to engage in defensive activities
I was thinking the other day that developing metrics is completely based on bias because the creator of said metric has particular intentions with it. That made me think about whether I should publish my thoughts on a new metric I developed. Not because I think it’s bad, but because it might not be useful…