https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/football/ Recent content in Football on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/01/08/petrov/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/01/08/petrov/ tl;dr In which I prove wrong a tweeted Opta football statistic, using R and Transfermarkt data. Oh wait, actually Opta were right. Ah, heck. Petrov Rescue Basically, for little reason, I dislike the style of the tweets on the Twitter feed for Opta1 (the company who do all the football stats). What is so outrageous? Each tweet always ends in a single, summary word that makes me cringe. https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/04/soccercolleagues/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/04/soccercolleagues/ Lee Bowyer and Kieran Dyer: ‘team mates’ (BBC via Giphy) tl;dr I made a quick R package called {soccercolleagues} that for a given player, or players, lets you (a) find all their former team mates in common and (b) sample from them for quiz-based purposes. Lord of the Ings Quiz question: Which current Premier League footballer has been team mates with each of the following: Kevin Phillips, Mark Viduka, Dejan Lovren, Danny Ings and Nicky Butt? https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/05/02/aguerooooo/ Sat, 02 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/05/02/aguerooooo/ tl;dr I used R to animate the goal that won Manchester City the 2011/12 Premier League title in breathtaking fashion. Inspired by Ryo Nakagawara, who makes awesome R-related soccer content that you can find on his site and on Twitter.1 The problem Soccer has run dry. Leagues have been cancelled or decided on a contentious points-per-game basis given that there’s no precedent. The fate of the 2019/20 English Premier League season is still unknown.