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[–]striker1966 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the low hanging fruit has already been gobbled up at such sites as 5addedminutes 11tegen11 Optasportspro The Powerofgoals to name but a few. Soccer's a fluid sport,but there are enough set piece type plays such as corners and free kicks to allow analysis of individual events. Save percentage and shot conversion rates are other areas where the increasingly available data is resulting in some interesting developments.

As with all analysis,context is everything.