Advanced Analytics in Football:

[robertmac43]

Been interested in Advanced stats in sports for a while now, more recently getting into the realm of analytics in soccer/football. What are peoples favourite/ least favourite stats to track, and evaluate players with? Also what are some advanced stats people want to introduce to the sport?

Moral of the Story, lets talk stats!

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[YNWA14]

Traditional stats I usually use whoscored and transfermarkt.

Advanced stats are very tricky with soccer. This is a decent site that tracks the top 5 European leagues and the RPL: xG stats for teams and players from the TOP European leagues

 

[les Habs]

LOL. Somebody is trying to get sources to prepare for the draft.

 

[Deficient Mode]

Sadly - as far as I know - not nearly as much good analytics work is publicly available as in hockey, much less other American professional leagues. You'd think it would be easy enough to make publicly available things like on/off or relative team xG, or goalkeeper xG vs. actual goals conceded - like there is in hockey - but you can only find that in bits and pieces when a stats person writes an article. There isn't a soccer site like Corsica where you can explore those things yourself.

 

[robertmac43]

LOL. Somebody is trying to get sources to prepare for the draft.

Swear to you I'm not...

 

[robertmac43]

So it's safe to say soccer is still very much reliant on the eye test

 

[Live in the Now]

Sadly - as far as I know - not nearly as much good analytics work is publicly available as in hockey, much less other American professional leagues. You'd think it would be easy enough to make publicly available things like on/off or relative team xG, or goalkeeper xG vs. actual goals conceded - like there is in hockey - but you can only find that in bits and pieces when a stats person writes an article. There isn't a soccer site like Corsica where you can explore those things yourself.

There are some accounts stating that top teams have made their own analytics and databases with their own weights on them per league that apply to practically every player out there, which is why they never sign players based on the WC and other tournaments anymore. Too bad no good soul will share those databases with the world because I would love to see one of them.

So it's safe to say soccer is still very much reliant on the eye test

To top teams, no. Unfortunately to fans, yes.

 

[robertmac43]

To top teams, no. Unfortunately to fans, yes.

Yeah my guess was the stats out there just are not allowed in the public domain...

 

[Eisen]

Been interested in Advanced stats in sports for a while now, more recently getting into the realm of analytics in soccer/football. What are peoples favourite/ least favourite stats to track, and evaluate players with? Also what are some advanced stats people want to introduce to the sport?

Moral of the Story, lets talk stats!

The only advanced stat, as in new stat, I know is packing. It's how many opposing players are passed with pass that gets you closer to the goal. Of course, that mostly useful for evaluating defenders and midfielders. The further back you sit, the better you can be, obviously.