Metrics & Explainers

91 articles

How To Get Started In Football Analytics Aug 29, 2024
Using Hudl Statsbomb Free Data In R Aug 22, 2024
Using Hudl Statsbomb Free Data In Python Aug 22, 2024
The NFL Physical Metrics Championship 2024 Aug 13, 2024 • Matt Edwards
xPass 360: Upgrading Expected Pass Models Aug 13, 2024 • Conor Sharpe
Finding Similar Players Jul 3, 2024
Identifying Attacking Overloads And Measuring Their Impact Mar 26, 2024 • Jaymes Monte
Analyzing defensive structure using StatsBomb's free tracking data Dec 6, 2023 • Will Morgan
New Hudl Statsbomb Radars: 2023 Update Oct 26, 2023
Hudl Statsbomb Release New Models: Expected Pass (xPass) and Pass Clustering Oct 5, 2023
Introducing HOPS: A New Way To Evaluate Heading Ability May 30, 2023
Representing Freeze Frames In Expected Completion Percentage Models Jan 25, 2023 • Will Morgan
Hudl Statsbomb Launch New 360 Metrics: Line-Breaking Passes and Ball Receipts In Space Oct 19, 2022
Modelling Team Playing Style Sep 5, 2022 • Conor Sharpe
Hudl Statsbomb Asks The Analysts: Insight From The Professionals Aug 17, 2022
Using Hudl Statsbomb For Player Recruitment Jul 27, 2022
StatsBomb Podcast, June 1st 2022: Upgrading Expected Goals, Packing vs. OBV, Football Teams Getting Smarter Jun 1, 2022
Upgrading Expected Goals May 15, 2022 • Dinesh Vatvani
On-Ball Value (OBV) in the 2020/21 Premier League Oct 5, 2021
Introducing On-Ball Value (OBV) Sep 16, 2021
Understanding StatsBomb Radars Jul 16, 2021 • Ted Knutson
Opposition Scouting In StatsBomb IQ: Spain vs Switzerland Jun 29, 2021
Opposition Scouting In StatsBomb IQ: England vs Germany Jun 28, 2021
Using StatsBomb IQ For Player Recruitment: Full Backs Jun 6, 2021
Using StatsBomb IQ For Player Recruitment: Centre Backs Jun 3, 2021
Using StatsBomb IQ For Player Recruitment: Forwards May 31, 2021
Introducing Similar Team Search Dec 15, 2020
Decoding Diego: Maradona by the Numbers Apr 16, 2020 • Nick Dorrington
StatsBomb Release... Not Radars Jan 23, 2020 • Ted Knutson
The Bundesliga's other leading goal scorers Nov 28, 2019
Statistical Standouts: Four La Liga players who are making waves in the numbers Oct 23, 2019
There are statistical warning signs lurking below Liverpool's perfect Premier League start Oct 3, 2019
Statistically unusual players in the early games of the Premier League season Oct 1, 2019
Do the numbers really say Manchester United are good? Sep 10, 2019
Set Pieces Remain An Underutilised Gamechanger Apr 25, 2019 • Ted Knutson
Under the Radar xG Stories: Gabriel Jesus Struggles, Eintracht Frankfurt's Three Stars, and Kevin Gameiro's Quietly Strong Season Apr 16, 2019 • Mike Goodman
Modeling Passing Uniqueness Apr 10, 2019 • Derrick Yam
The Modern Midfielder: Ball Mover Mar 21, 2019 • Nico Morales
Regretting Regression: Arsenal, Spurs and the Limits of Regression Analysis in Football Mar 18, 2019 • Kevin Lawson
The Increasing Complexity of Analytics Mar 4, 2019 • Kevin Lawson
Replacing a Superstar: How Spurs (Eventually) Moved on From Gareth Bale Feb 25, 2019
Attacking Contributions: Markov Models for Football Feb 20, 2019 • Derrick Yam
An Overview of Pass Heights In the Premier League, English Football League and Scottish Premiership Feb 5, 2019 • James Yorke
The xClaimables! Measuring Keeper Aggressiveness Jan 23, 2019 • Kevin Lawson
Do Statistics Explain Kevin-Prince Boateng's Barcelona Transfer? Jan 21, 2019 • Mike Goodman
The Statistical Stars of the FA WSL Nov 29, 2018 • Mark Thompson
The Unique (and Not so Unique) Challenges of Goalkeeping in Women's Soccer Nov 15, 2018 • Paul Riley
A New Way to Measure Keepers' Shot Stopping: Post-Shot Expected Goals Nov 12, 2018 • Mike Goodman
Intro to Goalkeeper Analysis Nov 8, 2018 • Ted Knutson
StatsBomb Podcast: October 2018 #4, Weekend Review And Premier League Player Metrics Oct 22, 2018
Introducing xGChain and xGBuildup Aug 30, 2018 • Thom Lawrence
Explaining xGChain Passing Networks Aug 29, 2018 • Ted Knutson
New Data, New StatsBomb Radars Aug 3, 2018 • Ted Knutson
Inside League One: Teams, Trends And Metrics Aug 1, 2018 • James Yorke
The Dual Life of Expected Goals (Part 2) May 17, 2018 • Kevin Lawson
The Dual Life of Expected Goals (Part 1) May 16, 2018 • Ted Knutson
xG is on TV. Now What? Aug 10, 2017 • Ted Knutson
Quantifying Finishing Skill Jul 31, 2017 • Marek Kwiatkowski
Passing Percentages Are Mostly Useless - Quantifying Passing Ability Jun 14, 2017 • Ted Knutson
Revisiting Radars May 17, 2017 • Ted Knutson
Pep's Struggles, Rashford vs Abraham, and Teasing xGChain Jan 5, 2017
Explaining and Training Shot Quality Apr 13, 2016 • Ted Knutson
Decision Making And Expected Value Oct 20, 2015 • Peter Owen
Have Expected Goals Caught Up With Gladbach? Sep 17, 2015
Top 6 Teams in the Premier League (by xG) Apr 10, 2015
Alex Ferguson Doesn't Care About Your Expected Goals Models Dec 4, 2014 • Max Odenheimer
Attacking Contribution Metric and Man United’s reliance on Di María Oct 6, 2014 • Colin Trainor
Defensive Metrics: Measuring the Intensity of a High Press Jul 30, 2014 • Colin Trainor
What Type of Striker do you want? Pre-Shot Dribble Distance Metric can help Jul 21, 2014 • Antonio
A Likely Futile Attempt To Get Someone, Somewhere, To Accept Basketball's Best Player Evaluation Metric Jun 17, 2014
Building Better Defensive Metrics – Opponent Passing Apr 28, 2014
What's the Most Important Stat to Convert Skeptics of Analytics? Apr 14, 2014
Radar Love: Robben, Reus, Sanchez, Navas, Firmino, Griezmann Apr 11, 2014
From Awesome to Average to Awful: Goalscoring Stat Distributions Feb 26, 2014 • Marek Kwiatkowski
Two Useful Metrics I Wish We Had Feb 25, 2014
Splitting Possession into Offense/Defense Feb 25, 2014 • Alex Olshansky
Comparing actual and expected goals Feb 17, 2014 • Constantinos Chappas
Radar Love: Box-to-Box Midfielders Feb 15, 2014
The Only Scores Against Bad Teams Myth, Part 1 Feb 9, 2014
Shot Charts: Comparing 5 of the World's Best Feb 2, 2014 • Oliver Walker
Radar Love: The Three Best Players in the World Jan 19, 2014 • Ted Knutson
Stat Attack - Elite Euro Goalscorers 2011-12 Jan 12, 2014
Stat Attack - Elite Goalscorers in Europe 2010-11 Jan 10, 2014
Assessing Key Passes Nov 11, 2013 • Colin Trainor
Defensive Metrics - An Introduction Oct 9, 2013 • Antonio
Premier League - Prime Zone Shots After Week 6 Oct 1, 2013 • Antonio
Premier League Shooting - The First 3 Weeks Sep 2, 2013 • Antonio
An Introduction To The 'Per 90' Metric Aug 26, 2013 • Benjamin Pugsley
The Problem with Shots on Target Metric Jul 22, 2013 • Colin Trainor
Premier League Forwards (2008/13): Goals & SoT Per 90 Jul 18, 2013
Brief Notes on Forward Evaluation and Metrics Jun 17, 2013 • Ted Knutson