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Expected Threat Chain: Evaluating attack chains in scouting
Discover the next evolution of Expected Threat. Moving from individual actions toward entire chains of attacks. Expected Threat Chain shows how actions interact and create threat long before a shot is taken. A new perspective for scouting and understanding the game.

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29. Jan.9 Min. Lesezeit


How Algorithms Transform Football Scouting: Identifying Tomorrow’s Stars with Data
How can future stars be spotted early? Inspired by Billy Beane’s Moneyball, we use similarity algorithms to compare player profiles, spot U23 and U19 talents with traits of today’s stars and show clubs how to turn this into smarter, data-driven scouting.

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1. Okt. 20259 Min. Lesezeit


Tactical innovation in football: How creative ideas create competitive advantages, incl. experiences and practical tips
Create sustainable competitive advantages with trend scouting and innovative ideas, supported by practical examples, best practices and my experience as a tactics and data analyst. Discover how creative ideas, structured thinking and tactical innovation make the difference on the pitch

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24. Apr. 202518 Min. Lesezeit


CONMEBOL U20 Rising Stars: Data Scouting South America’s Next Talents
With Mateo Vazquez, we scout and celebrate the Top10 rising stars, diving into the talent of South America's brightest players of the future

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13. Feb. 202515 Min. Lesezeit


New AI footballytics Podcasts and Datasouting Offer
Innovation is key to survival. We've used AI to create fully automated, one-click podcasts. Explore new opportunities and listen to it

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24. Okt. 20247 Min. Lesezeit


Tactics and Data: Outplay opponents with pass combinations
We show videos of effective and creative passing combinations and identify the best Premier League and Bundesliga players and teams

footballytics
17. Okt. 202410 Min. Lesezeit


Cognitive Biases in Football: Decision Making - How They Impact Performance and Transfers
The fascinating world of cognitive biases that lead us to make misjudgments. And how data and other measures can help counteract them.

footballytics
24. Aug. 202411 Min. Lesezeit


Change the game: Rethinking second balls and increasing success rates
Why teams often don't choose the best strategy and how more second balls can be won with specific actions per zone.

footballytics
23. Aug. 20249 Min. Lesezeit


Identifying Key Attacking Zones with Data: How Analytics Increases Attacking Efficiency
We find data-validated attack zones with the best risk/reward ratio and make tactical suggestions to improve attacks

footballytics
20. Mai 20248 Min. Lesezeit


Moneyball in Football: How Smart Data Scouting Unlocks Hidden Potential
Only few exploit full "moneyball" potential. We demonstrate our complementary data scouting approaches in practice

footballytics
19. Mai 202310 Min. Lesezeit


Practical and Creative Innovation Methods and Tools in Football
Best practices to develop and implement fresh and innovative ideas. About Courage. creativity, self-driving cars and more...

footballytics
17. Mai 202314 Min. Lesezeit


Expected Threat (xT) the best offensive metric so far
We explain Expected Threat (xT) concept and look at scoring threat holistically and identify the best Bundesliga players per position

footballytics
9. Mai 20238 Min. Lesezeit


Trend - Attacking with Cutbacks: Why This Is One of the Most Effective Attacking Pattern
The last who enters box, is the first to shoot. Concept, analysis and insights of this powerful attacking method

footballytics
30. März 202310 Min. Lesezeit


How to Visualise and Analyse Football Matches Using Data and Python
Article from Aritra Majumdar. We are always open for guest articles to help network and strengthen the analytics community.

Aritra Majumdar
29. März 20236 Min. Lesezeit


Interpreting event data in football: xG, xT, and cutbacks
We explain the concept our Match Event Report and analyze and interpret the graphs and patterns to gain valuable insights

footballytics
13. März 202311 Min. Lesezeit


Fairly comparing team performance: data analytics instead of gut feeling
Data Analytics is on fire, In a practical example, we show how team performance can be compared in more fairly way.

footballytics
27. Aug. 20227 Min. Lesezeit


Comparing players using data: Best practices in Data Scouting
Unadjusted offensiv metrics favor players of teams with a lot of possession, as they have more time to execute the

footballytics
21. Aug. 20228 Min. Lesezeit


Data Scouting Explained: From Numbers to Better Recruitment Decisions
In modern football, hidden talents are no longer a secret. Where scouts used to roam the leagues worldwide with notepads and binoculars, data scouting now enables systematic, efficient, and objective player evaluation. Thanks to digitalization and easy access to comprehensive performance data, clubs can analyze any player within minutes, regardless of whether they play in Europe, Africa, or Asia. footballytics But data alone is not a panacea. Creative, analytical use of this

footballytics
2. Mai 20226 Min. Lesezeit


UYL Datascouting & Youth Academies Challenges
The systematic, sustainable and qualitative assessment of player potential is a major challenge for academies. In reality, those in charge

footballytics
30. Apr. 202211 Min. Lesezeit


Data-driven U21 dream team: how data identifies the best talent
Our pure data driven selected players have gained 8.6 million market value witin only 65 days. Forget #Bitcoin :-)

footballytics
21. Apr. 202210 Min. Lesezeit
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