professional soccer analysis Tag

10 Feb

Posted at 13:08h in Research

Why comparing football players without respecting their demarcation systematically distorts performance analysis in elite football https://youtube.com/shorts/arMpCYD-btc?feature=share Comparing players is a daily habit in professional football.We compare passes, sprints, accelerations, duels and shots.Dashboards look clean. Rankings look objective.Decisions feel data-driven. But a structural problem sits underneath these comparisons.A bias...

05 Feb

Posted at 13:49h in Research

Comparing players from different competitions is one of the most common practices in performance analysis. It is also one of the most misleading. https://youtube.com/shorts/U1YIO3pL-Ng?feature=share In professional football, physical metrics are often used as a shortcut to describe player capacity. Total distance. High-speed running. Sprint counts. These numbers...