https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/soccer/ Recent content in Soccer 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. https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/05/31/brickr-soccer/ Fri, 31 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/05/31/brickr-soccer/ Virtual Lego {brickr} is a fun package by Ryan Timpe that lets you build 2D mosaics and 3D models with Lego-like virtual bricks,1 with a little help from Tyler Morgan Wall’s {rayshader} package. Build 3D LEGO models & mosaics in #rstats! {brickr} is now on GitHub. More examples, How-To's, and vignettes coming soon. Can't wait to see what you all build! https://t.co/vBK0A70PTl pic.twitter.com/5kXRGta4jx — Ryan Timpe 📊 (@ryantimpe) 15 March 2019 You can get started with the brickr toybox, which lets you arrange bricks in a spreadsheet that {brickr} can turn into a 3D model. https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/07/17/world-cup-age-app/ Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/07/17/world-cup-age-app/ Mbappé got swag (Equipe de France de Football via Giphy) tl;dr I wrote an R Shiny app that tells you how many players at World Cup 2018 were younger than you. It’s designed to make you feel old. You’re welcome. The World Cup Final So the World Cup is over for another year. I managed luckily to get tickets for the final, where Karpatlya—a Hungarian diaspora in Ukraine—overcame the powerful Northern Cyprus team on penalties at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Enfield, London.