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The introduction of The Athletic's match dashboard for detailed football analysis to statistical insights on player and team performances in the Six Nations 2024 tournament. Methods of evaluating quarterbacks, discuss football's increasing predictability linked with team inequality and examine trends in predictability and home advantage across various team sports.
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This Week's Lineup
Introducing The Athletic’s match dashboard: Our detailed snapshot of how a game unfolds
Delves into the challenge of quantifying the dynamics of a football match through data analysis, presenting The Athletic's match dashboard as a solution, which offers detailed visualizations including threat timelines, territory plots, match stats, shot maps, pass networks, and player stats to provide a comprehensive snapshot of each game's action. Use https://12ft.io/ to get through the subscription hurdle.
Six Nations 2024 Stats Hub
Six Nations 2024 stats hub features statistical analysis and offers insights into player and team performances across various metrics throughout the tournament.
Searching For The Next Patrick Mahomes
Explores contemporary methods of evaluating quarterbacks, emphasizing the significance of play creation demonstrated by top quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, and Lamar Jackson, and suggests a quantitative approach using metrics and clustering algorithms to assess these skills, providing insights into the challenges of scouting and drafting quarterbacks.
Football is becoming more predictable; network analysis of 88 thousand matches in 11 major leagues
This study investigates the impact of football's increasing monetization and professionalization on match predictability in major European leagues over a 26-year period, revealing a consistent rise in predictability correlated with team inequality and diminishing home-field advantage, using a minimalist network science approach and statistical modeling techniques.
Predictability, Home Advantage, and Fairness in Team Sports
Findings suggest soccer is becoming more predictable due to wealthier teams dominating, while other sports show varied trends, and home advantage universally declining.
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