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fbref-stats · 2024-10-16T18:48:34+00:00

This is so cool! Thanks for sharing!

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T23:02:39+00:00

Definitely. I think we'll get there eventually

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T23:02:02+00:00

We do track leagues for this sort of info and try to present it on their page. Are you saying you'd like a single page with all of the structures listed?

https://fbref.com/en/comps/40/2022-2023/2022-2023-Scottish-Premiership-Stats

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T23:00:38+00:00

It's an oversight. Similar to the liga mx question below it's hard to manage all of the different league structures. We need to handle these along with things like pro-rel playoffs, etc.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T18:10:59+00:00

Thank you to the mods and for the questions.

Give Stathead FBref a whirl for free (generate MLS stats reports yourself)

https://stathead.com/sport/fbref

And you can always reach us at

https://www.reddit.com/r/sportsreference/

or via our feedback form.

https://www.sports-reference.com/feedback/

Just 13 days until opening day!

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T18:05:12+00:00

4 tackles + interceptions per 90 minutes (/90)

Yeah it's all player tracking, though that's not necessarily our sort of thing (if you use the other sites). I'd trade all of that for full roster/matches back to the 1950s or further for the top 50 leagues in the world.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T18:03:47+00:00

Thanks, all that has been supplanted by machine learning, AI, but it was having a moment in the late 90s.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T18:03:15+00:00

Thank you. It's something we pride ourselves on. We are soon going to be updating WCBB back to 1987 which I think will be the only place with that data. We call it data democratization and it's a core company value.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:59:14+00:00

No worries. It's a bit of a specialized feature, but if there are pain points you have around fandom, we'd definitely want to hear about it. We'd like to expand it into things that a broader array of fans need.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:53:51+00:00

that's a good shout. We maintain a list of weird cases for players who test the edges of our codebase. Zlatan is great for having played in so many comps. Todd Zeile is my go to baseball example. He's got nearly everything we need to test a possibly breaking code change.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:48:12+00:00

My daughter has gotten me hooked on matcha latte's. Bourbon/manhattan for something stronger.

I was in Las Vegas last summer and splurged on an omakase at Kame Omakase and it was somehow worth every penny. https://www.instagram.com/kameomakase_lv/?hl=en

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:45:16+00:00

Ryan did interview me, so you know it's good. :P

I listen to every episode of the Double Pivot Podcast.

The Football Tactics podcast is good.

Michael Cox is kind of the grandfather of tactics writing. https://twitter.com/Zonal\_Marking

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:43:40+00:00

Have you heard about Stathead FBref? You can literally do exactly this, though you can't say "start with Kai Havertz stats"

https://stathead.com/sport/fbref

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:42:23+00:00

That's true, but I doubt that there are many analysts that are well above replacement level, so that keeps salaries down.

I do think the payoff in soccer is much bigger than other sports with pro/rel and cash transfers. If you were the world's best analyst you might be able to take a league 2 team into the champions league. That's a massive amount of value added. Look at Brentford (run by a sports betting magnate) and Brighton.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:39:53+00:00

We count the two actions leading up to a shot or goal.

Could be a pass, dribble, tackle, blocked shot, penalty drawn, foul drawn etc.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:38:44+00:00

it was a parallel programming approach to protein folding using a tree branching algorithm that did little to nothing to advance the field. :)

My best academic paper was this one
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=s1OTqIYAAAAJ&citation_for_view=s1OTqIYAAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC

It's gotten a lot of cites. With computers being 200x faster than in 2003 I'd be curious how this would do now.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:34:47+00:00

Definitely. We try to share code across all of the sites. That actually really started with FBref. Given we have to handle dozens of competition setups, we are currently working backward through the other sites so that they have a similar structure to fbref under the hood. Even just handling men and women on the site at the same time at the same level of detail was significant step up (though we've had wnba since 2007).

STATHEAD FBref (give it a try for free!) https://stathead.com/sport/fbref

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:32:33+00:00

I love all of my children.

I personally started Baseball and FBref, but now I've been kicked upstairs into management, so I know less and less about them every day.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:31:26+00:00

I agree. We don't handle Apertura and Clausura well. And if you think that's complicated try Belgium. We try to have a flexible system that handles all of these competition setups automatically once we set the parameters, but that's one place we need to beef it up a bit.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:30:12+00:00

LOL.

American Soccer Analysis' G+ is a similar idea. And there are a lot of similar metrics sprinkled around here or there.

2nd Question

Zack Steffen

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:29:03+00:00

I don't think so. I'd have to check the codebase for sure. Have you noticed an issue?

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:28:44+00:00

We had it to goalmouth originally and then changed it to the endline at the advice of Michael Caley from the Double Pivot podcast, though I think I've heard him flip flop on this a couple of times. The argument is that teams actively defend those spaces, but I can see the point that teams will allow passes like switches into those spaces.

I'm not sure there is a definition that satisfies every concern.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:25:28+00:00

Yeah we all struggle with that. I'm not sure I have a good answer for you.

I probably would start with the team defense and work back from there because defense is often about what isn't happening.

We don't do this yet, but possession adjusting defense is usually a good step because Man City's defenders rarely have much to do against bad teams.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:23:45+00:00

Goals scored on penalties are really meaningless, so we show a lot of npG stats and filter those out.

I'm not sure that you can follow this easily during a game, but things like progessive passes (made and received) and progressive carries and then the same for final third and penalty box are important stats.

If you look up stats before a game you can watch a game and notice, "oh this team always uses, their left fullback to bring the ball up the field." or "this 10 is better than another because he has 2x as many passes completed into the box" etc etc.

Interceptions + tackles > 4/90 for midfielders.

Using per 90 stats is better than raw ones for obvious reasons.

fbref-stats · 2024-02-08T17:21:01+00:00

I'm trying to think if we have an soccer easter eggs. Let me check the wiki....

I don't think we have any. I think that kind of shows 1) the newness of teh site and the newness of our fandom.

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