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Premier League Attack Profiles to 2nd October 2016

Posted on October 4, 2016October 4, 2016

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Championship Shot Locations to 28th September 2016

Posted on September 29, 2016September 29, 2016

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Premier League Shot Locations to 26th September 2016

Posted on September 26, 2016

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Opta Conference 2016 (Find me a player like Andrés Iniesta: Part 2)

Posted on September 22, 2016September 22, 2016

This post is late. Really late. I’d intended to write up my 2016 Opta Forum presentation back in February when the conference happened, but somehow never got around to it. Now that applications are open for 2017, it’s definitely time to get this piece out. For anyone unfamiliar with Opta’s Analytics Forum, it’s a chance…

Euro 2016 tweet data to download and play with

Posted on August 5, 2016September 5, 2016

Throughout Euro 2016, I ran a Python script capturing every tweet that mentioned the tournament hashtag “#Euro2016”, or any team hashflag such as “#ENG” or “#ISL”. The script captured over 13 million tweets, which I’m making available to the data visualisation and analytics communities to play with. If you want to try messing about with a…

Vardy, Kane or Sturridge? Profiling England’s striking options.

Posted on June 18, 2016June 18, 2016

It’s been a while since my player snapshots last had an outing, but they’re up and running again – with a few small improvements – and in this post we’ll use them to take a look at England’s striking options for the rest of Euro 2016. If you haven’t seen the snapshots before, they’re designed to be a fast…

Building animations with the chalkboard app

Posted on June 6, 2016June 7, 2016

This is part two of the user guide to Hilltop’s chalkboard app. If you haven’t used the app before, then it’s probably a good idea to start with part one. Hopefully, you’re already comfortable drawing players and events on the chalkboard. In this guide, we’re going to learn how to add players in bulk, move them about…

Introduction to the Chalkboard app

Posted on May 19, 2016June 7, 2016

You might already have seen Hilltop’s new Chalkboard app. I launched version one during the final game of the 2015/16 season, using the tool to describe Rooney’s opening goal. Too impatient for instructions? It’s not really complicated. Go here. The chalkboard app is a quick way to describe moves and to illustrate tactics. A few possibilities are… Describe a goal in…

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