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Messi and Ronaldo – Clasico Special

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are arguably the two best players of this generation. They go head-to-head for the 6th time this season. The intent of this post is to celebrate these two players on the eve of a Clasico. While both Messi and Ronaldo have scored 41 goals a piece so far, they following [...] Read more ›

AuthorRavi Ramineni
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Barcelona, Clasico, Football Analytics, La Liga, Messi, Messi Stats, Real Madrid, Ronaldo, Ronaldo Stats, soccer analytics, Stats

What if the Champions League Really Was a League?

With the second week of fixtures in the Group Stages of the Champions League about to begin, we thought it would be interesting to look at how the structure of the competition affects the percentage chance each team has of … Continue reading → Read more ›

AuthorPaul Jackson
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AC Milan, Ajax, Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Champions League, Chelsea, Internazionale, Man City, Man United, Olympique Lyonnais, Olympique Marseille, Paris St Germain, Real Madrid

Where Does Talent Come From? — La Liga Edition

This is our second post in our series on the origins of players — previously we looked at the Premier League.  La Liga is little different from the Premier League, both in terms of infrastructure (“B” squads can compete in lower divisions) and culturally (Athletic Bilbao has a policy to only sign players from the [...] Read more ›

AuthorSarah Rudd
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Analytics, Barcelona, EPL, Real Madrid, Statistics, Youth

The Deloitte Money League

This week Deloitte released its report on the top revenue earning teams, called the money league.  The data on the top 20 teams is available from the Guardian’s Datablog and is broken down into three categories: matchday, commercial and broadcasting.  Given that the Seattle Sounders are competitive in terms of attendance with many of the teams that made [...] Read more ›

Authorsrudd
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Attendance, Barcelona, Major League Soccer, MLS, Real Madrid, Seattle Sounders