12 Oct, 2022

Bielsa’s Influence, and the Curious Case of Javier Torrente

12 Oct, 2022

Marcelo Bielsa is hugely influential, but not every coach he's influenced plays the same way. We used Coach ID to map styles and found an interesting outlier

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10 Oct, 2022

Are data analytics the new YouTube skills and goals videos?

10 Oct, 2022

Arran Ridley uses some nifty analysis to show how we talk about football on Twitter is changing

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Lena Oberdorf: A Perfect Midfielder

Stephanie Insixiengmay looks at the 2022 Women's Ballon d'Or nominee, who is only 20, and assesses her terrifyingly high ceiling

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05 Oct, 2022

How Manchester City’s Asymmetrical Approach to Chance Creation is Actually Systematic and Similar

05 Oct, 2022

Jamie Scott is back another superb team analysis, this time focussing on Pep Guardiola's asymmetry at Manchester City

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29 Sep, 2022

Brexitball: The Summer 2022 Transfer Window

29 Sep, 2022

Andy Watson reviews the last window and draws some conclusions about how changes in work permit regulations have impacted the market

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22 Sep, 2022

André-Frank Zambo Anguissa: Right Player, Wrong Time?

22 Sep, 2022

Alex Stewart and Tom Underhill look at the Napoli midfielder, whose high transfer fee when joining Fulham was seen as emblematic of the failures in their scouting, but who has since gone on to excel

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20 Sep, 2022

Data in Context: How Did Graham Potter’s Brighton Achieve a ‘Big Six’ Style of Play with a Bottom Six Budget?

20 Sep, 2022

Dan Pritchard assesses Graham Potter’s tactical approach using data to show how he overachieved relative to budget with the Seagulls Almost all football clubs at the professional level use data these days, but fewer are led by that data, used to its fullest potential. This is something that requires...

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20 Sep, 2022

FC Bayern München Frauen Sign Up With Analytics FC

20 Sep, 2022

Analytics FC are proud to announce FC Bayern's Women's Team are the newest client to sign up to our flagship data-scouting platform, TransferLab.

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Naomi Girma – A Rock for the Wave

Stephanie Insixiengmay looks at the overall first-round draft pick and shows why she’s been such an asset for the San Diego Wave When Naomi Girma was drafted first in the NWSL draft, it elicited a few mixed reactions, not least why the San Diego Wave chose to draft another...

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15 Sep, 2022

Minimal Width, Maximum Gain? Jesse Marsch’s Leeds United

15 Sep, 2022

Jamie Scott analyses how Leeds United have manipulated width to create opportunities With the adoption of positional play (Juego de Pocision, or JDP for short) fast becoming a conventional strategy in modern, elite-level football, viewing the football pitch from a zonal perspective, rather than from a player-centric standpoint, has...

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