8  Sports Data Science

This page provides a comprehensive collection of resources on sports data science. The page includes links to tutorials, datasets, journal articles, and personal blogs focused on sports data science.

8.1 Sports Data Science Blogs

8.1.1 Multiple Sports

  1. Sweep Sports Analytics
  2. Jason Zivkovic
  3. SPORT DATA SCIENCE

8.1.2 Soccer

  1. SBNation Blogs
  2. Sports Intelligence
  3. 11tegen11
  4. Karun Singh
  5. Mackay Analytics
  6. Son of a Corner
  7. Saints by Numbers
  8. Achim Zeileis
  9. Opta Analyst
  10. The Come on Man
  11. The Last Man Analytics
  12. Analytics FC
  13. 11v11
  14. WyScout
  15. Biscuit Chaser FC
  16. StatsBomb
  17. EightyFivePoints
  18. Owen Thompson
  19. Tony El Habr

8.1.3 Basketball Analytics

  1. Dribble analytics

8.2 Sports Data Science Stories

  1. Armando Broja: A Case Study
  2. Out of the Park
  3. How Data (and Some Breathtaking Soccer) Brought Liverpool to the Cusp of Glory
  4. How data analysis helps football clubs make better signings
  5. LOAN PATHWAYS: THE ACADEMY MODEL
  6. LOAN PATHWAYS: THE PORTFOLIO MODEL
  7. LOAN PATHWAYS: THE MULTI-CLUB MODEL

8.3 Sports Data Science Journals and Readings

  1. EightyFivePoints Reading List & Data
  2. Sports analytics reading list
  3. Sports analytics conference video archives
  4. Journal of Sports Analytics
  5. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports

8.4 Tools and Databases

8.4.1 Multiple Sports

  1. PySport
  2. DTAI SPORTS ANALYTICS LAB
  3. SportsDataVerse
  4. Sports guideR
  5. Sports Reference
  6. SFU Sports Analytics Group Virtual Seminar
  7. Brescia BDAS Lab
  8. SPORT PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
  9. Bruin Sports Analytics
  10. Spotrac
  11. THE GREAT ANALYTICS RANKINGS
  12. Sport Informatics and Analytics

8.4.2 Soccer

8.4.2.1 Curated list of soccer resources

  1. Awesome Soccer Analytics
  2. Edd Webster Football Analytics
  3. Soccer Analytics Handbook

8.4.2.2 Individual resources

  1. Soccermatics
  2. MPL Soccer
  3. American Soccer Analysis
  4. Total Football Analysis
  5. Learn Python & Data Science With Football
  6. Learn R & Data Science With Football
  7. Experimental 361
  8. Barca Innovation Hub
  9. Training Ground Guru
  10. SportSciData
  11. FourFourTwo
  12. Twelve Football
  13. Football Science
  14. THE DATA CRUNCHING FOOTBALL EXPERT
  15. worldfootballR
  16. Languages and tools to learn for sports analytics
  17. Coding for sports analytics

8.4.2.3 Databases

  1. CIES Football Observatory
  2. The Fjelstul English Football Database
  3. The Fjelstul World Cup Database
  4. StatsBomb Open Data
  5. Football Data UK
  6. SoFIFA

8.4.2.4 American Football

  1. Big Data Bowl ’21 Submission
  2. Modeling Player Biomechanics
  3. Fantasy Football Analytics

8.4.2.5 Basketball

  1. NBAstuffer

8.4.3 Tutorials

8.4.3.1 Soccer

  1. Adding Football Crests to Scatter Plots in R
  2. How Our Club Soccer Predictions Work
  3. Google Research Football with Manchester City F.C.
  4. Data in Elite Sport
  5. COMPUTER VISION IN SPORT
  6. Getting Started with Free StatsBomb Event Data
  7. Predicting Football Results With Statistical Modelling
  8. Liverpool 20-21 EPL Performance
  9. Explaining Expected Threat
  10. Working with data in elite sport
  11. Mathematical Modelling of Football
  12. 10 Steps to Get Started in Sports Analytics
  13. Flank Attacks Visualisation
  14. Doing More With StatsBomb Data in R
  15. How sports scientists can use ggplot2 in R to make better visualisations
  16. Visualizing the Premier League
  17. Fitting your own football xG model
  18. PassSonar

8.4.3.2 Basketball

Coming soon…