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How many league points do 10 Goalimpact add?
If you are a club owner or fan, you would want to know how many points your team is going to have at the end of the season to judge if your team is good enough or needs reinforcement. Let's assume you...
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Young Player Challenge - July Update
A new quarter started. Time to look what our young talents are doing. Here is the list of the most talented players that are yet to turn 20. Players listed with a value of 1,500,000 € or below at...
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Top50 Football Players - July 2015 Edition
New quarter, new top-list. With the move of Stefan Ilsanker to Leipzig, one of the players with the highest Goalimpact of the world plays in the second German devision....
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Will Brentford FC get promoted to Premier League?
On the football hipster scale Brentford FC currently rates very high. Ever since Matthew Benham invested into the team with both money and knowledge, a remarkable increase in performance started. Yet...
View ArticleFC Schalke 04 - Borussia Dortmund: Goalimpact of Lineups
Dortmund has a much better starting XI, but the home field advantage gives Schalke a slight edge. Still, the probability of an draw is rather high. This is in contrast to the betting markets that see...
View ArticleTurkey vs Czech Republic: Goalimpact of Lineups
Turkey hosts Czech Republic in an European Championship qualifier. The great times of both teams seem a bit over lately, but the Czech silently improved a bit again. They now have a better team than...
View ArticleIceland vs Netherlands 2:0
Because of the upset caused by the victory of the apparent underdog Iceland, here the Goalimpact values of all players. Iceland has some decent players, but the Netherlands should have won this. Yet,...
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Which German Goalkeepers should Löw pick?
The German national coach for goalkeepers, Andreas Köpke, recently named the goalkeepers that he has on his list for the national team and, hence, which are competing for participation in the European...
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A new look at football players
Abstract: We found a strong Relative Age Effect in youth football. Yet many of the players that benefited from their relative age seem to fail to move to senior football because they lack their...
View ArticleYoung Player Challenge - September 2015 Update
The transfer period ended and some of our talents moved to new clubs. This, in turn, affects also their market value. So time to check where we are standing. Here is the list of the most talented...
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Top-50 Football Players: September 2015 Edition
Thomas Müller expressed his satisfaction, to be "finally above Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in a ranking". So we shouldn't let him wait to see the updated ranking. He still is in the lead after this...
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Top-50 Football Players: October 2015 Edition
Only some tweaks of the aging curve, but not algorithm change this time. Notable pointsGeorginio Wijnaldum just scored four goals in a Premier League game. We were actually surprised that no bigger...
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Bayern Munich vs. Bundesliga
Without any doubt, Bayern Munich is the best team in the Bundesliga. One of the best, possibly even the best, in the world. "But are they better than the rest of the Bundeslga combined?", asks...
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Germany National Team at Russia 2018
Source Wikipedia. Creative Commons.About a year ago, we predicted the German national team that is going to play in Russia 2018 - provided they qualify that is. Since April we have a new, better...
View ArticleTop-100 All Time
A quick data dump upon request. I leave the commenting to you guys. Just quickly the filter criteria. This includes all non-Goalkeepers in the database with at least 20000 minutes of match time that...
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FIFA World XI by Goalimpact
The FIFA didn't select the players that have the highest Goalimpact, but that isn't also to be expected. The FIFA World XI is a honor that is based on 2015 performance only, while Goalimpact is based...
View ArticleThe Best XI Ever
In Brazil in summer of 2014, Jogi Löw prepared the German national team to enter the World Cup. He took care of all the details as famously documented in the movie "Die Mannschaft". One detail he...
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Young Player Challenge - January 2016 Update
Winter break. Good time to check how did our Young Talent Challenge do since the last update. As always, here is the list of the 23 most talented players that are yet to turn 20 plus our earlier picks...
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