In this weeks @iDiskiTimes article I wrote about positions as a tool in player development. I give and discuss a practical example of a multi directional practice in a circular field and go into detail of why this can be useful in developing well rounded multi faceted footballers
Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. Itโs called The American Dream.
The four Ps of Passing:
โ Possession
โ Progression
โ Penetration
โ Production
Presented by Monday Night SCOUTED:
This was a simple but effective method from @paulharvey.theoutfield.nyc
www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2025/1/...
โYou might think that there cannot be any ties that bind physics with the worldโs most popular sport, but strip things back and the similarities are remarkableโ (analysis via @markcarey93.bsky.social for @theathleticfc.bsky.social)
First blog post in a while.
Tracking data research probably wasnโt worth it until recently. And some unexpected utility of the Hungarian algorithm.
www.centralwinger.com/p/tracking-d...
Guardiola's influence is so deep it has become a competitive advantage in England as other clubs appoint pencil sketch imitations of the old master. This is not the case in Europe. It shows at times
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
"[I]n my opinion, the single best thing you can add is space."
Spacing, font, colour use go a lot further than you'd ever imagine they would
Everything written here could have been written by me. I, too, obsess endlessly over the quality of the presentation and the aesthetics of my graphics, as some of the people on here who fielded countless style questions from me in GC can attest.
Put this together last year and feels more pertinent than ever
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We're still looking for more responses to the 2025 PySport Survey!
Since our last post we've been able to add:
- ๐ง๐ท Brazil
- ๐ฎ๐น Italy
- ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia
๐ forms.gle/uHqr3NcePzbB...
Exclusive interview with Andoni Iraola: the almost reluctant coach driving the post-Guardiola world
- giving his players the freedom to attack
- his plans when he plays wealthy teams
- how football changes faster than ever
- Basque influence
- his own aims
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
โThe first mistake in the โindividualistic exchange theoryโ or commodity theory of money is โฆ that in the transition from exchange to money, money itself is presumed unquestioned and is taken as a commodity as it would just replace the exchanged good.โ
I built ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ๐น๐ถ๐-๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฟ, a custom React component for Streamlit for working with soccer tracking data.
And a blog post on ๐๐ถ๐ด ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ, ๐ง๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ๐
I went to Wycombe Wanderers, where a Georgian-Kazakh tech billionaire is aiming to defy preconceptions by rebuilding a football club from the bottom up.
This is going to be a fascinating story to follow (even before the manager leaves).
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
Manchester Unitedโs narrative has done a 180-degree flip in a span of two games, which is what positive results against Liverpool and Arsenal away from... #MUFC #PremierLeague #Football
I wrote about a simple metric to measure the strength of the connection between players on the pitch together. It help up surprisingly well under the microscope, and can provide at-a-glance information about how teams are constructed, as well as how they develop over time.
It's really interesting seeing Raya at Arsenal, having been around when Spielverlagerung type people were talking about goalkeepers in build-up were a future trend
Lowest rated goalkeepers in the Premier League this season (15+ apps):
โ 6.50 - Andrรฉ Onana
โ 6.53 - Emiliano Martรญnez
โ 6.58 - Bart Verbruggen
โ 6.61 - Arijanet Muric
โ 6.62 - Dean Henderson
Scientists and vaccine-makers broke speed records developing COVID-19 vaccines that have saved tens of millions of lives worldwide โ and were the critical step to getting life back to normal. to.pbs.org/4h108do
Jadon Sancho has four assists in the Premier League this season following his brilliant run and pass for Cole Palmer's opener today.
That's already more than he ever managed in a single PL campaign for Manchester United.
Continuing the tradition, I have compiled an end-of-year overview of the soccer analytics content that I liked the most in the past year. The 2024 edition includes pointers to over 160 resources, including research papers, blog posts, articles, podcasts, and books.
janvanhaaren.be/posts/soccer...
Welcome to my Bluesky profile!
My name is Jan Van Haaren, and I'm currently the Head of Football Insights & Innovation at Club Brugge in Belgium.
In 2020, I began publishing annual end-of-year review blog posts, highlighting the soccer analytics content that I liked the most from the past year.
The theory here is that some kind of basic property of โgoal probabilityโ is โoption-nessโ
open.substack.com/pub/absolute...
The key finding of my comparison of how journalists & creators build trust with audiences:
Journalism has placed many markers of trust in institutional processes that are opaque to audiences, while creators try to embed the markers of trust directly in their interactions with audiences.
