Facing France in the 2018 World Cup Final
This May, I submitted an entry for the data analysis competition at the 2020 Sounders FC Soccer Analytics Conference. The challenge was to create data …
Revealing mathematical and statistical details of the world's greatest passion
Does your club have a young squad? Roster management in the 2019 Brazilian league
[English translations will be provided in the near future] Seu time escala os jovens? Ou ele usa mais os “experientes”? O Gráfico de idade e utilização do …
Striker Finishing Profiles – 2019 Brasileirão
The original Twitter thread can be found here. The attackers of the 2019 Brasileirão can be divided into 4 different finishing profiles using two pieces of …
Where Brazilian Teams Have the Ball
Ball possession is one of the most commonly used statistics to analyse a football match. Often, during half-time or while a player receives medical attention, …
A Brazilian at the Football Innovation Conference
This past weekend, I traveled to London to attend the first StatsBomb Innovation in Football Conference, held at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge. In case you are not …
The Best Goalkeepers in the 2018 Brazilian League
Amid the break on the Brazilian soccer calendar, Algolritmo will provide you texts about the Brazil’s top leagues, the Série A and the Série B. In this first …
World Cup Betting Pool Guide and Most Likely Knockout Stage
The World Cup starts tomorrow, and most fans are finalising their predictions in various betting pools. If you still have some doubts, or feel you don’t …
Who Will Win the World Cup
The World Cup: a sporting, cultural, social, political, economic, and above all passionate event. The World Cup is the football world’s greatest focus …
Champions League 17-18 Predictions Round of 16
Algolritmo is back with predictions about the UEFA Champions League, which begins its knockout phase tomorrow. Using the excellent datasets provided by …
Brazilian League Probabilities
Using the great data from STRATABET that I receive weekly along with some Computer Science knowledge I prepared a simulation of the Brazilian League (also known …
Brasileirão 2017 Top Scorers Luck and Merit
Recently, I received access to detailed data about the 2017 Brazilian soccer League (also known as Brasileirão). Therefore, the next few posts will most likely …
Tite vs Dunga
This upcoming week the South America World Cup Qualifiers returns with a big match between Brazil and Uruguay. The Brazilian team comes motivated by 6-game …
Predicting the Champions League
Last week, I received the great news that I was selected by StrataBet (a sports betting website) to receive extremely detailed material on European soccer …
Measuring Goal Relevance
December and January are characterized by several transfer rumors in the soccer world, notably in Brazil, where teams are currently looking to sign new players …
Brazilian League’s Over and Under Achievers
As the Brazilian National League off-season period is currently underway, I bring you a new method to analyze each club’s performances in last year’s tournament …