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#Scouting: Stefan Bajčetić (18, CDM)
Shows maturity & composure way beyond his age. Add the anticipation, mobility, ball-winning, passing & it's easy to see why he's an elite talent.
Still far from a finished product, though.
As for 🇷🇸. It's not over until he... See more
Football, as a more complex team game without a form of real possession, is largely about triangles. One such triangle might be the player currently touching the ball, the one about to receive it, and the off-ball player currently causing the greatest deformation in the defence’s shape. Triangles might replace ‘ball events’ as the key unit of
... See moreDavid Sally • The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football is Wrong
What football had not witnessed, Anderson and Sally felt, was an analytics revolution. Plenty of people were reading the numbers and taking note of what they said: these are the players who have sprinted the most, these are the number of shots we have taken and the rest. But nobody – as far as they could tell, at least – was trying to find out what
... See moreRory Smith • Expected Goals
Thanks to data from @sertalpbilal I looked at #fpl prediction accuracy for GW 1-19 for players that had ~1% or more ownership in GW 19.
No big differences, but seems the best model for xPts is from @FantasyFootyFix, and the best predictions for xMin from @fplreview Market Odds https://t.co/nos2hiE8el
