Spain's Perfect Eleven takes on the Confed Cup
Spain's national team is full with so many excellent football players that it is a pitty only eleven can play at a time. If the staring XI consists of the players with the highest Goalimpact, it would...
View ArticleUruguay's National Team at the Confed Cup
To continue posting all teams at the Confederatinos Cup, here is the one of Uruguay. Now only Nigeria to go.PlayerGoalImpactAgeTeamGamesMinutesGoalkeeperFernando...
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The Market Value of Johan Djourou - Transfer Report
Reportedly, the Hamburger SV wants to buy Arsenal's Johan Djourou. This caused me to compare his Goalimpact with the market value according to transfermarkt.de, to get an idea if it would be a good...
View ArticleMarcelo enters Hall of Fame
I really liked the performance of Marcelo at the Confederations Cup. So I'm happy to announce that this added to his already high Goalimpact such that he has now more than 160. Therefore he now...
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Backtesting: Confederations Cup
Ultimately, the meaning of analysis is to either to improve or to predict. Being on the top-down side of analysis, my realm is the prediction of player performance and, based on this, team performance....
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Bruno Varela - Mover of the Month
I conducted the database update so now all games in June 2013 are reflected in the Goalimpact. In the category Mover of the Month, I report the player that saw the biggest increase in Goalimpact in...
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Sneak Preview: The Impact of Age on Football Player Performance
I've been quite busy restructuring my model to make the addition of new factors easier. The new framework is close to finanlization and my first new factor will be the player's age. This analysis is...
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Prediction: Final Standings of Bundesliga 2013/2014
The fun part of analysis, at least to me, is to make predictions. Since the new season starts next week, I'll try to predict the final standings at the end of the season with my algorithm.Most...
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Sadio Mane - Mover of the Month
Not many leagues were ongoing in July so this month's top mover comes naturally from a league that was. Sadio Mane from Red Bull Salzburg plays in the Austrian Bundesliga and played already three games...
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All-Time Top-25 Football Players Aged 21
Just a short list, because I found it particularly interesting as it illustrates the power of Goalimpact for scouting purposes and it's stability across time. In the following table I show the players...
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The Dark Age of Football
Following my post on the all-time best football players aged 21, a discussion started of why there are so few players between 1987 and 2007 on this list. The time period is nearly 50% of all the total...
View ArticlePSV Eindhoven vs AC Milan
A quick glance on the now beginning play-off between PSV Eindhoven and AC Milan.Starting XI of Eindhoven:PlayerGoalImpactAgeGoalkeeperJeroen Zoet92,1122,568DefenderKarim Rekik90,3818,664Joshua...
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Top-50 Football Players - September 2013 edition
I used the August to update my database. It now contains about 30% more players than previously. Most of the new players are either from the 80ties (finally my Serie A data starts much earlier) or in...
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Britt Assombalonga - Mover of the Month
The leagues in throughout Europe started again and thus we can see more movement in the players. Especially players that changed the club in the transfer period are more likely to make larger...
View ArticleUkraine vs. England - WC Qualifier Match Preview
Just by looking at goals, England seems to have had a perfect WC qualifying round so far. They scored 25 goals and conceded only 3 giving them the lead in the qualification group H. However, four wins...
View ArticleU21 EC Qualifier: Ireland vs. Germany
Just as a supplement to the ongoing match between Ireland's and Germany's U21.Irland [U21]PlayerGoalimpactAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesAaron McCarey99.021.6Walsall FC211894Sean McGinty88.920.1Sheffield...
View ArticleLineups for Faroe Islands vs Germany - WC2014 Qualifier
Faroe IslandsPlayerGoalimpactAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesGunnar Nielsen78.726.9Silkeborg IF211880Pol Justinussen90.424.6NSA Runavik13711898Atli Gregersen96.931.2Vikingur16014795Viljormur...
View ArticleLineups Andorra vs. Netherlands: WC2014 Qualifier
AndorraPlayerGoalimpactAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesFerran Pol63.530.52177Moises San Nicolas52.420.0161307Cristian Martinez58.023.9131160Ildefons Lima53.733.7AC Bellinzona866774Emili...
View ArticleLineups for Austria vs Ireland: WC2014 Qualifier
ÖsterreichPlayerGoalimpactAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesRobert Almer123.529.5Energie Cottbus877803Sebastian Prödl103.426.2Werder Bremen19716379György Garics99.029.5Bologna FC26420067Christian...
View ArticleSeason Predictions: Premier League, Primera Division, Serie A
Just before the season started, I predicted the final standings of the Bundesliga season 2013/2014. With a few match days behind us, I find it amazing how fast the teams got sorted in the table similar...
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