Bayern München vs. Viktoria Plzen: Goalimpacts of Lineups.
Bayern MünchenPlayerGoalimpactAgeNational TeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesManuel Neuer164.927.5Deutschland36133805Daniel Van Buyten137.435.6Belgien44338695Rafinha134.228.1Brasilien Olymp.30325559Philipp...
View ArticleBayer Leverkusen vs Shakhtar Donetsk: Goalimpacts of Lineups
Bayer LeverkusenPlayerGoalimpactAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesBernd Leno118.721.6Deutschland [U21]16315159Emir Spahic108.833.1Bosnien-Herzegowina21619584Sebastian Boenisch123.426.7Polen15411419Ömer...
View ArticleCurrent Standings of the Bundesliga Prediction
Ten match days are played this Bundesliga season already. Let's check how well the different pre-season predictions worked so far. To recall, these were the predictions (sorted by...
View ArticleRating of the Ballon d'Or Nominees
The FIFA announced the list of nominees for the Ballon d'Or. Given their Goalimpact, they are all well above average and most of them world-class. Personally, I find the usual bias in the selection...
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Top-50 Football Players - November 2013 edition
My monthly database update is done. All values now include all games until October 31st 2013. The last column reports the changes in the Goalimpact as compared to last month's update. As always the...
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The Football Aging Curve
Edgar Davids was a great football player. Maybe one of the greatest player of his time. But he was also a passionate chess player and he improved his chess game lately. Besides that, he is also great...
View ArticleFC Schalke vs. SC Freiburg: Lineups with new Age Factor.
Today we introduced the new aging curve of football players. This allows us to add a new value to all players, the Peak Goalimpact. This values refers to the estimated Goalimpact at the peak of the...
View ArticleChampions League Odds
Here are the odds to advance to the quarter final of the Champions League compiled from various sources. The table is sorted by the difference in Goalimpact. Thus Real Madrid is, according to...
View ArticleGuangzhou Evergrande vs Bayern München: Lineups
Guangzhou EvergrandePlayerGoalimpactPeak GIAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesCheng Zeng113.2115.126.9China817521Xiaoting Feng120.2124.528.1China968355Young-Gwon Kim113.7120.423.8Südkorea12510973Linpeng...
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Top-50 Football Players - December 2013 edition
Here is the new list of the top-50 football players on earth. It is the first list since the introduction of the football aging curve. As the current player age is now corrected for all but for...
View ArticleNotice to Readers
Happy New Year! 2013 was a year full of development in the football analytics community. Goalimpact was had two major revisions that increased its forecasting power a lot. In the course of the year,...
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Top-50 Football Players - January 2014 edition
A fresh top list of all football players as a start in the new year. There were only small changes to the previous month. This is a result from many leagues being closed for parts of December. However,...
View ArticleRating for Goalkeeper
One of the problems of football statistics is that it isn't obvious to find numbers how to rate players. One position that is comparably easy to analyse is the goalkeeper. It is easier because...
View ArticleHow a single Game changes the Goalimpact
Goalimpact is a rather complicated algorithm. Because we want to use it commercially, we don't publish its exact functions and to the readers it is more or less a black box. To shed some light on how...
View ArticleAtlético Madrid vs FC Barcelona: Team Rooster
Ateltico is a team without apparent weakness, but Barca is individually much better.Atletico MadridPlayerGoalimpactPeak GIAgeTeamNo. GamesNo. MinutesThibaut Courtois128.7128.721.7Belgien17516235Diego...
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Djibril Paye - Mover of the Month
In the category Mover of the Month, we are reporting every month the player that had the biggest positive surprise in the last 30 days. This month's top mover plays in Moldova's top league at Sheriff...
View ArticleHamburger SV vs FC Schalke 04: Team Roster
Schalke is expected to win. The players are having higher quality. And both teams have some promising talents in their ranks. Watch them next season.Hamburger SVPlayerGoalimpactPeak GIAgeTeamNo....
View ArticleBacktesting: How did the Bundesliga prediction work out so far?
Ten match days are played this Bundesliga season already. Let's check how well the different pre-season predictions worked so far. To recall, these were the predictions (sorted by Goalimpact). The...
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Top-50 Football Players - February 2014 edition
A fresh update of the games of last month and here is the new Top-50 list of the world's football players. This time we have four new entries marked yellow in the table below....
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Transfers Winter 2013/2014 Visualized
While toying around with Tableau, I generated these maps showing the Winter transfers. The first map shows the average Goalimpact of the players that left the respective country.Learn About Tableau And...
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