Analytics Rugby Analytics: Creating a rugby pitch in R This tutorial explains how to create a Rugby Union pitch in R using ggplot.
Analytics Do Serie A teams invest in young talents or rely on accomplished players? I created a squad profile for Serie A teams to understand the distribution of young talents and accomplished players across each position.
Analytics How Juventus are succeeding (at achieving failure) At nearly half of the 21/22 campaign, the Bianconeri are 7th in the league. Is the chase for a top-four spot over yet? Here is how Juventus are succeeding at solving a flawed plan.
Analytics Football Analytics: Creating an xG-xGA comparison chart in R In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a chart to compare xG and xGA metrics across multiple gameweeks for one or more football teams.
Analytics Football Analytics: Creating a performance timeline in R In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a bump chart to represent the progression of Expected Points (xP) collected by Serie A teams over time.
Analytics Football Analytics: Using R and FBref Data - Part 2 Building on the previous tutorial, this piece will focus on how we can make the scatter plot more appealing and provide additional insight.
Analytics Football Analytics: Using R and FBref Data - Part 1 This is the first part of a series of posts that will illustrate how to install R, set up RStudio, and go from a table with some football-related metrics to a compelling visualisation to analyse English Premier League teams' performance.