I thought that the only data available were the typical stats such as goals, percentage of passes, numbers of shoots, etc. However, in 2020 I heard about the book “Soccermatics” by David Sumpter and the movie “Moneyball”, and I knew the term: Advanced Football Stats. Since then I have…

The term prompt has been popular in recent months through OpenAI and ChatGPT, however, not everyone is aware of certain tips for obtaining the best answer, and in the note I describe four tactics to improve the instructions. First, ¿What is ChatGPT? is an AI-powered language model developed by OpenAI…

Sólo el 25% de los clubes de fútbol ecuatoriano no tiene una publicidad de pronósticos deportivos en su camisa, aunque todos cargan en sus hombros el logo de la LigaPRO BET593. Todas las competiciones del fútbol ecuatoriano están patrocinadas por sitios de pronósticos deportivos desde la LigaPRO, Ascenso Nacional, SuperLiga…

A traditional element in analytical scouting is the radar chart which has gained popularity in recent years linked with Statbombs. Radar charts are more engaging than tables or bar charts helping to interpret those metrics. A radar chart is key to comparing players and is useful for the Coach, Journalist…

The survey “State of Databases 2023” created by Basedash was delivered and had insights for the analysis that I talk about in this note. SQL is the fourth most popular technology for developers (Stack Overflow) and this was the main motivation to obtain insights that allow us to understand the…

I remember when I was 14 years old searching websites for football teams the player’s list of the first and young teams where I found Neymar at 16 years old. At that moment not exists -or did not know- stats websites with players’ details such as transfermarkt, whoscored, fbref, and…

When I started with the football analytical a person that inspired me was David Sumpter through “Friends of Tracking”. David is a professor of applied mathematics, co-founder of Twelve Football, and writer of the amazing book Soccermatics. The book could not have had a better quote on the cover than…

As a Data Analyst, the main objective is to help stakeholders make decisions through data. Commonly a product that helps is the Dashboard. The dashboard helps summarize the amount of data that is represented with charts, pivot tables, and KPIs. However, a Dashboard with an incorrect structure it will cause…

Data help make better decisions, and something useful for this statement is data visualization. Visualization helps to summarize the amount of data generated, actually, the task visualization is frequently in exploratory data analysis (EDA), descriptive analysis, or business intelligence. See figure 1, it’s a data set with pass event data…