Josh Hobbs looks at the problems surrounding backward passing and showcases TransferLab’s newest metric. For some time now, football analysts have been looking for a way to value on-field actions which goes beyond simple shot-based metrics. Analytics FC have been working with advanced non-shot-based models for some time with...

Josh Hobbs takes a look at a raft of new heading metrics that have just been added to our TransferLab tool. Although there has been a lot of discussion in recent years about the future of heading in football, in today’s game it’s still a vital component. In fact,...

Josh Hobbs explores another one of TransferLab’s novel metrics, looking at some of the most ‘clutch’ assisters in world football. Back in 2019, Analytics FC’s Managing Director, Jeremy Steele, wrote a piece about ‘clutch’ goal scoring’. Using TransferLab’s ‘Goal Importance’ metric, he was able to analyse who the most...

Om Arvind explores a novel metric that we recently added to our TransferLab platform. One of the earliest trends in the nascent football analytics movement was the exclusion of penalties from goal totals. The thinking was: penalties are converted very often (at roughly a 75% rate) and, thus, the...

Josh Hobbs looks at another novel metric generated by TransferLab. One of the perennial problems using data to analyse football is the discrepancy that exists between those with the ability to manipulate data and those who understand what is taking place on a football pitch. Where data scientists will...