somdeep / statball

Statball - Football soccer stats analyser from top 5 european leagues with data obtained by web scraping from Fbref and Statsbomb

Statball

Statball - Football (soccer) stats analyser from top 5 european leagues with data obtained from Fbref and Statsbomb.

Fbref : https://fbref.com/en/comps/Big5/Big-5-European-Leagues-Stats

Statsbomb : https://statsbomb.com/

Visualizations created using Tableau Public : https://public.tableau.com/

1. Built-In Data Scraper/ API to pull or scrape data from fbref and Statsbomb - using C# / webapp / web scraping
2. Preferred position filtering
3. Combined statscore value
4. Multi resource file processing - for combined statscore value as well
5. Clustering based talent identification
6. Performance/Role analysis
7. Similarity analysis for position/player using Cosine/other similarity - vector/array based
8. Player scouting based on customisable player profiles and statscore based scouting.

Visualization and Scouting Samples

Visualization 1 : Heavily Involved Creators, and Messi in a league of his own (20/21, minimum 20 90s).

Sample 1 : Top 30 AM profile players from top 5 leagues (20/21, stats p90, minimum 20 90s).

Prerequisite Installations

Download and install .NET Core from here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/windows?tabs=net50

How to Run : Download the project and run the dotnet run command as below :

dotnet run

dotnet run -h|--help

Follow steps here if needed : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-run

statball's Issues

Handle non-additive stats

Describe the bug
Handle non-additive stats

To Reproduce

Expected behavior
Handle stats that are better for lower values.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. iOS]
• Browser [e.g. chrome, safari]
• Version [e.g. 22]

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: [e.g. iPhone6]
• OS: [e.g. iOS8.1]
• Browser [e.g. stock browser, safari]
• Version [e.g. 22]

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Possession-adjusted stats

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Possession-adjusted stats

Describe the solution you'd like
Adjust for possession to better reflect metrics.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

Factor in transfer market valuations

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Update installation, running process and general usage documentation

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Update installation, running process and general usage documentation.

Describe the solution you'd like
Add in steps for documenting dotnet core, app running, usage, scraping methodology, etc.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context
Add in links to dotnet, fbref etc as needed.

Add in Team statistics and analysis

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Team data scraping and analysis.

Describe the solution you'd like
Bring in teams data scraping and carry out similar data analysis for teams, including identifying suitable/needed players.

Describe alternatives you've considered
New feature/request.

Additional context
Teams data is available from fbref/statsbomb, needs slightly modified scraping.

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