Josh Hobbs looks into the relationship between success and squad ages to see if there is any correlation between age and performance in football. With speculation swirling around his future, Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made a very interesting selection decision for their recent game against Tottenham Hotspur. The...
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Josh Hobbs returns to his ‘Measuring Transfer Success Through Minutes Played’ article to see how TransferLab’s Goal Difference Added metric can clarify the findings. Last month, I published an article with Analytics FC looking at the idea of measuring transfer success by minutes played. The piece was inspired by...
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Abdullah Abdullah takes a look at Ella Toone’s reinvention at Manchester United to see what’s gone right for her this season. For fans of Manchester United, this season could have been going much worse than it has. The summer represented what felt like a pivotal moment in their short...
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Josh Hobbs explores one way of quantifying successful transfers through looking at ‘Minutes Played’. Speaking at the recent Statsbomb conference at Stamford Bridge, Liverpool Football Club’s Head of Research, Dr Ian Graham, made the claim that, statistically speaking, over 50% of ‘big transfers’—defined in this case as those over...
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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...
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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...
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Andy Watson takes a look at the last two transfer windows in England to see what we can learn about the impact of new Brexit regulations on football in the UK. It is no great revelation to say that the transfer market in the UK is in a state...
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Abdullah Abdullah looks at Manchester City’s new recruit Khadija Shaw and compares her with her teammate Ellen White. Manchester City have had arguably one of the best transfer windows of the summer, signing several top-class players, including Filippa Angeldal, Hayley Raso, Alanna Kennedy, and Vicky Losada to name a...
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At Analytics FC, we recently concluded a series of case studies focusing on Loan Pathways as a means for young players to embark on their careers in professional football. Each case study distinguished a different model of player development before exploring how the loan system was used to aid...
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Jon Mackenzie and Josh Hobbs explore the loan systems used in the modern game and assess how clubs have created different pathway models for their players. Most of these models focus on player development in some way but each has a very different methodology and some have very different...
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