Nowadays, in the player scouting process, it’s very common to use a similarity index to show which players are likely to be most similar to each other. This process is particularly useful for teams with tight budgets, as they will usually need to “discover” new players and this similarity index can help them. This process […]
I carried out this analysis a few months ago for one of the modules of the Sports Data Course “Statistics and Mathematics applied to sport with R”. The purpose of this exercise is to make a comparison between two different clustering models, one non-hierarchical and the other one hierarchical. The data used are selected by […]
I carried out this analysis a few months ago for one of the modules of the Master’s Degree at Sports Data Campus and it is based on the match that Dinamo Zagreb played against Varaždin on the 26th April 2023. All videos and information obtained are from my own elaboration based on videos from Wyscout […]
OBJECTIVE Rayo Vallecano is a club that in recent years has been characterised by doing a good job on the pitch and also in the offices, forming and giving continuity to a group of players who have given a great performance, but at the end of this season, a large number of them will leave […]
CONTEXT The purpose of this study1 is to take advantage of the break in the national championships to analyse whether there are trends that show that age has an influence when choosing or betting on certain players. To do so, we will study how goals are distributed in the main European leagues, dividing the players […]
Hello everybody again! I usually let my memories rest for a while before writing about my new experiences, but this time I couldn’t resist any longer to tell you about my latest adventure. I’m especially excited because I got to experience first hand a match in a stadium that I thought I wouldn’t get the […]
There’s always a good reason to visit the multicultural Lisbon, whether it’s for its food, its people… or its football. As a lover of Portugal, I couldn’t pass up the chance to visit one of the most beautiful stadiums in Europe and home of one of the most important teams in the country, Sporting Clube […]
The best left-back in the history of Real Madrid (with the permission of Roberto Carlos) has said goodbye to the club of his life after sixteen seasons and a collection of titles only at the level of the greatest. In the 2006 winter transfer window, Real Madrid’s football management, led by the hero of the […]
We are used to the headlines of Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi, but we often forget that one of the best strikers of recent years and Golden Shoe in 2020, Ciro Immobile, plays in Italy. We are talking about a late-blooming player and, although nobody doubts his quality now, it wasn’t always like that. Despite making […]
Among the stars of the European champions Chelsea, it is worth mentioning one of the products of their youth academy. He is just 22 years old, but he is already a leader at club level and now also in the national team. We are talking about Mason Mount. The Chelsea youth player joined Cobham at […]
