Thinking About Football Models 📰

What I think about when I think about football.

I tried writing a longer article for those curious about modelling football matches. In a way, it is what I wish I could have read five years ago.

Happy New Year everyone 💜

www.elevenify.com/p/thinking-a...

Continuing the tradition, I have compiled an end-of-year overview of the soccer analytics content that I liked the most in the past year. The 2024 edition includes pointers to over 160 resources, including research papers, blog posts, articles, podcasts, and books.

janvanhaaren.be/posts/soccer...

Mystery Chip = Assistant Manager chip!

Here's the calendar up to GW38.

If EVE vs LIV is rescheduled before GW30 then my chip strategy will probably be:

Wildcard in GW30
Assistant Manager in GWs 31-33 (inc. DGW33)
Free Hit in BGW34
Bench Boost in DGW36
Triple Captain Salah in the EVE vs LIV DGW

Thanks! I strongly recommend Ep 2 of the CoU podcast: podfollow.com/1531632125/v... and this excellent article on FPL analytics: alpscode.com/blog/intro-t.... I used data from football-data.co.uk (you can download lots of historical data from here. FBREF.com is another big source of data

Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...