What a read! I am an ice hockey fan and my favorite resource for hockey is a site called money puck. I wish football had its own version of it!
Basically, the site runs 1000 simulations using the xG data to create a “Deserve-to-win-meter” and also adjusts xG for venue, if the score is close or not, and a few hockey specific things. Every game I watch or attend I check the deserve-to-win-meter to spot check my gut take on which team created more chances and deserved to win.
Incredible list. As a big research man myself, this has introduced a lot of sites I had no idea about. To add, here are a couple others I like to use (go-to sites I used to help build Squawka Stat Packs beyond the angles that Opta provided):
• www.11v11.com - great for head to head records and historical league tables. Has the nice W / D / L colour codes for results and this is always great to see a snapshot of streaks within a particular fixture. Detailed players stats are only available for the Premier League era but I think it has pretty much every fixture... ever.
• www.worldfootball.net - a German site like Transfermarkt, the database is huge and it updates live so you can always get a player's latest goals/games for a specific competition. If you are particular with your assist definitions, I think this uses the more lenient version (including penalties won etc) but it has a top scorer list that breaks down penalties, all-time league tables and other quirks like referee and attendance stats. You can get lost down plenty of rabbit holes.
Everything has been covered. Top work, as is the NTT20 standard.
What a read! I am an ice hockey fan and my favorite resource for hockey is a site called money puck. I wish football had its own version of it!
Basically, the site runs 1000 simulations using the xG data to create a “Deserve-to-win-meter” and also adjusts xG for venue, if the score is close or not, and a few hockey specific things. Every game I watch or attend I check the deserve-to-win-meter to spot check my gut take on which team created more chances and deserved to win.
https://moneypuck.com/g.htm?id=2024020049
That is very cool! Gotta be careful with the word ‘deserve’, though. Still gotta put the ball in the net, that’s the hardest bit 😆
Incredible list. As a big research man myself, this has introduced a lot of sites I had no idea about. To add, here are a couple others I like to use (go-to sites I used to help build Squawka Stat Packs beyond the angles that Opta provided):
• www.11v11.com - great for head to head records and historical league tables. Has the nice W / D / L colour codes for results and this is always great to see a snapshot of streaks within a particular fixture. Detailed players stats are only available for the Premier League era but I think it has pretty much every fixture... ever.
• www.worldfootball.net - a German site like Transfermarkt, the database is huge and it updates live so you can always get a player's latest goals/games for a specific competition. If you are particular with your assist definitions, I think this uses the more lenient version (including penalties won etc) but it has a top scorer list that breaks down penalties, all-time league tables and other quirks like referee and attendance stats. You can get lost down plenty of rabbit holes.
Everything has been covered. Top work, as is the NTT20 standard.