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MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2013: Soccer Analytics Panel

Panelists : Chris Anderson, Albert Larcada, Blake Wooster, Jeff Agoos The makeup of this year’s panel is very different from that of Soccer Panel at SSAC 2012. Dominated by “club insiders” last year, this year’s panel had a mix of “outsiders” like Chris Anderson, Blake Wooster from Prozone represented the data companies, Albert Larcada from ESPN coming from media [...]
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AuthorRavi Ramineni
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#SSAC13, Data Visualization, English Premier League, Football Analytics, Premier League, Sam Allardyce, Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, soccer analytics, Soccer panel, SSAC, West Ham United
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Sports Hack Day Project

I have been busy ever since I started working for the Seattle Sounders about a month ago. It has been great so far. We are less than a month away from the season kick-off. I am very excited, to say the least. Coming up in a few weeks is the Sloan Sport… Read more ›

AuthorRavi Ramineni
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D3.js, Data Visualization, Data-Driven Documents, English Premier League, Football Analytics, Manchester United, Premier League, Seattle Sounders, soccer analytics, Sports Hackday

MCFC Analytics blogposts – Summary #8

Here is the list of interesting posts I found in the past week An interesting post on home advantage and how it manifests itself into football stats by @FbPerspectives. The post also has a link to a detailed paper from 2009 on home advantage. Guardian Data blog has an interactive visualization of the Bolton – City [...]
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AuthorRavi Ramineni
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#MCFCAnalytics, Barclays Premier League, Bolton Wanderers, Data Visualization, English Premier League, EPL, Football Analytics, Manchester City, MCFC Analytics, Opta, Premier League, soccer analytics, soccer data visualization, Tableau

MCFC Analytics – Summary of blog posts #4

It has been about a month since the basic MCFC data set has been released and it is great to see lots of people churning out stuff using both the basic and advanced data sets. Based on the tweets with #MCFCAnalytics tag, there are quite a few peoples’ projects are in progress. Good luck to [...] Read more ›

AuthorRavi Ramineni
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#MCFCAnalytics, Arsenal, Barclays Premier League, Bolton Wanderers, Data Visualization, English Premier League, EPL 2011-12, Football Analytics, Manchester City, MCFC Analytics, Opposition Analysis, Opta, soccer analytics, soccer data visualization, Tableau Public

MCFC Analytics – Summary of blog posts # 3

Thanks for the amazing response to Summary of blog posts #1 & Summary of blog posts #2 I also want to thank people who have reached out to me via twitter with links to their blogs & posts. Goalscorer ‘footedness’ by @DavidAHopkins measures the footedness or the foot favoured by Premier League goalscorers. How do [...] Read more ›

AuthorRavi Ramineni
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#MCFCAnalytics, Barclays Premier League, Bolton Wanderers, Data Visualization, English Premier League, EPL 2011-12, Football Analytics, Manchester City, MCFC Analytics, Opposition Analysis, Opta, Premier League, soccer analytics, soccer data visualization, Stoke City, Tableau, Tableau Public

Visualizing momentum shifts in Bolton vs. Man City

This is an attempt to visualize the momentum shifts in Bolton vs. City with goals scored and substitutions using the #MCFC analytics advanced data tier – I. I used possession as a proxy for momentum. The game is divided into 5 minute buckets. If a goal is scored in a bucket, the bucket will end [...] Read more ›

AuthorRavi Ramineni
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#MCFCAnalytics, Barclays Premier League, Bolton Wanderers, Data Visualization, English Premier League, EPL 2011-12, Football Analytics, Manchester City, MCFC Analytics, Opta, soccer analytics, soccer data visualization

MCFC Analytics – summary of blog posts # 1

Here are some of analysis pieces based on the #MCFCAnalytics data published in the past couple of weeks. I plan to do a weekly post linking to all the articles I come across on Twitter. My objectives for the weekly post are: Capture all the work done using the MCFC data set Provide a forum [...] Read more ›

AuthorRavi Ramineni
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Data Visualization, English Premier League, Football Analytics, MCFC Analytics, Opta, soccer analytics

Impact of Santi Cazorla

Santi Cazorla moved to Málaga at the beginning of the 2011-12 season. The fortunes of Villarreal nose-dived culminating in relegation. Exactly the opposite happened at Málaga. Relegation candidates in 2010-11, Málaga finished fourth in 2011-12, qualifying for the Champions League for the first time in the history of the club. Cazorla moved to Arsenal a [...] Read more ›

AuthorRavi Ramineni
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Analytics, Arsenal, Data Visualization, Heatmaps, La Liga, Málaga, Opta, R, Santi Cazorla, soccer analytics, Tableau, Villarreal

Villarreal 2011-12 – Breaking down a failed season

Villarreal had a disastrous 2011-12 ending in an agonizing relegation to the 2nd division in the dying minutes of the season. In 2010-11 Villarreal reached the semifinals of the Europa League and finished 4th in La Liga to qualify for the Champions League. I focus on the performance of Villarreal in the attacking third of [...] Read more ›

AuthorRavi Ramineni
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Analytics, Data Visualization, Giuseppe Rossi, Hexagonal Binning, La Liga, Opta, R, Santi Cazorla, soccer analytics, Statistics, Tableau, Tableau Public, Villarreal

Performance analysis: Villarreal 2011-12

Villarreal had a disastrous 2011-12. They are relegated to the Spanish Segunda Division in the dying minutes of the season. The obvious question was “What went wrong?” The easy answers are the exit of Santi Cazorla and the long-term injury to Giuseppe Rossi. But that doesn’t fully explain how a team that featured in the [...] Read more ›

AuthorRavi Ramineni
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Analytics, Data Visualization, La Liga, soccer analytics, Tableau, Villarreal, Whoscored