The Hudl Statsbomb Conference is a unique chance to learn from and meet the cleverest people in sport analytics. Such an inspiring event to be part of! What a privilege it was being on the research stage with Reyna Stats 👑📊 to talk about the work we do 😀

[clear international break content] still true and perhaps even more nails on a chalkboard now than it was then->

One for the forwards then

execution on that nunez pass for the equaliser was a bit special

Talks from the Research Stage at the 2024 #StatsbombConference are now available to watch on demand There were 11 talks from the Research Stage, covering topics from Possession Value to left-footers vs right-footers to balancing pressing intensity ▶️ youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Probing Possession Value Our Head of Football Research Will Thomson (Will Thomson) presented at the recent #StatsbombConference, discussing current approaches to possession value models and investigating how we could improve them Watch the talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=51agUz…

Overcoming challenges in a club environment A talk from Martha Reyna and Antoine Maratray in our Customer Success team at the recent #StatsbombConference, highlighting the work we do to help our customers find solutions to common challenges they face ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=rrD_Q3…

Milan eh

Following Jamie Carragher's take on Brentford getting more dangerous opportunities with an extra pass I investigated. I tried a very naive attempt at finding passes in shooting areas that preceded a shot. There were 3 aspects I found interesting with video examples below 🧵

Ali's good at this, give it a read:

I thought Salah was the best player in the league prior to his injury break last season, then when he returned, he kinda didn't pick it up again and everyone forgot, and perhaps now he's back to the same point

As a stats person, I can somewhat confidently tempt fate knowing that it theoretically cannot intervene, so I'm just gonna say that it seems VAR incidents and discourse have reduced dramatically recently, which is good.

fate has decided to pop up here instead 😂

Dyson Daniels is unbelievable.