Handy Resources
A bunch of links to useful resources of various different types.
They're split into three sections:
- conferences/research, which can help keep up-to-date with the latest advances in football analytics
- guides/courses, helping to get started with football analytics yourself (not an exhaustive list, but if it was it'd take all day to read it)
- tools: coding packages and online applications to
Conferences/research-related links:
- Stats Perform Pro Forum presentation videos (collected together by Ben Torvaney)
- StatsBomb conference presentation video playlists (2019 research papers here, 2021 research papers here)
- New England Symposium on Statistics in Sport (NESSIS) presentation videos (NESSIS website here) - multi-sport event
- Sloan Sports Analytics Conference website - features research papers back to 2019 - multi-sport event
Guides/courses:
- 'Friends of Tracking' YouTube series
- Includes creating shot maps, pass maps, heat maps, expected goals model, pitch control model
- Github repository for the course is here
- FC RStats tutorials
- Cover basics, data visualisation, and scraping data
- Open StatsBomb data tutorials using R - article link here, and another PDF helper sheet is linked in the article
- Covers some basics of loading StatsBomb's open data and basics of R, using the StatsBomb data
- FC Python web scraping tutorials
- Training Ground Guru Tableau Masterclass, by Tom Goodall [£9.99]
Tools:
- Directory of useful sport-specific coding packages (predominantly in R and Python)
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