Perambulations in Football Analytics

Slides for a lightning talk presentation given at the 85th PyData London meetup (May 2024).

Using Python tools like matplotlib, pandas and mplsoccer, we've discussed how to access football data with examples using fbref.com and Statsbomb Open Data

Transcript

1. Perambulations in Football Analytics @MarcoBonzanini PyData London
2. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Nice to meet you • Dr Marco Bonzanini • NLP and Data Science stuff • Consulting, training and coaching on Python + Data Science • Former Chair @ PyData London 2
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4. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Football Data 4
5. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Football Data 5 Type Samples / match Cost Summary 10s 🥜 Event 1,000s 💰 Tracking 1,000,000s 💸💸💸
6. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Football Data 6 Expensive Interesting Summary Event Tracking
7. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Football Data 7
8. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Summary Data 8
9. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Summary Data 9 fbref.com
10. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com 10 fbref.com
11. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com 11 fbref.com
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13. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Rank on Multiple Columns? 13
14. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Rank on Multiple Columns? 14 df[columns].apply(tuple,axis=1) Make a tuple from multiple columns, then rank() on that tuple
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16. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com 16 plt.gca().invert_yaxis()
17. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com 17 ax.secondary_yaxis("right")
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19. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Event Data 19
20. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Event Data 20
21. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Shot Maps 21
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27. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Passing Maps 27
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29. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com 29 Comet lines + scatter
30. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com 30 Comet lines + scatter
31. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com Passing Networks 31
32. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com 32 Avg position based on passes
33. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com 33 Passing Network (unweighted)
34. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com 34 Passing Network (weighted)
35. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com 35 Passing Network (weighted)
36. © Bonzanini Consulting Ltd — BonzaniniConsulting.com To The Pub ⚽ 🍻 36