A couple weeks ago, we launched a new feature for FBref, our world ⚽️football site. FBref is on bleeding edge of making football/soccer analytics available to the public. But so many of these stats are brand new or position-dependent. So...
I’ve been working with the incredible folks over at Sports Reference to update their Play Index Tools. These products let you search for any player, any team, any season, any game, or any play in the history of sports. There is an incred...
Here's a follow-up on the season visualization from a few days ago. Now, the entire match (goals for, goals against, and result) are the same color and the gray on draws has a bit more contrast. Plus, I took a look at some clubs who mayb...
Looking for a way to capture form across multiple competitions and this started coming together rather quickly. I want to show not only the result (win, loss, or draw), but also the margin of victory. I also needed to show if a match end...
The folks at FBREF.com asked me to take a look at their homepage. Their existing homepage (seen in the attachments) is text heavy and simply reflects that it was listing the data they were adding in their incremental updates. Site founde...
My friends at Sports-Reference recently launched their world football site, FBREF.com. They recently acquired data for match reports, so they sent me over the data dump wondering if I had any recommendations for displaying the data. Obvi...