Hello, I watch a lot of football in the championship and often the commentators on sky sports will say “this is the most unpredictable league in the world”. The thought occurred to me that this is actually quite easy to test. All you need is a model which predicts a range of league. The model […]
Hello, Welcome to the third and final part of my replacing Nikita Parris series. If you haven’t caught the first 2 blogs go check out before this one as they take you through the various parts of the process. We identified our 3 best candidates to replace Nikita Parris: Francesca Kirby, Millie Farrow and Vivianne […]
Today I’m going to doing the second part, if you didn’t read the first part go check it out: Replacing Nikita 1 I’m summary, Nikita Parris is leaving her team last season Man City, and I need to find players suitable to replace her. I did a bit of an exploratory analysis of Nikita Parris […]
Today I have a challenge go through. Done by FC Rstats however the submission was a few weeks ago and I did it in a rush and I don’t think it was my best work. Therefore this is a re hash of my submission so could end up with different results. The challenge is simple […]
Hello, welcome to the preview of Group F in the world cup. Thanks for all the support so far on these previews. I would love to hear peoples thoughts and predictions on the competition. Today we will be looking at group F which contains Germany, Mexico, South Korea and Sweden. The first thing to look […]
Todays World Cup preview we are going to be looking at group E. This group contains Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland and Costa Rica. As mentioned previously this is all part of my series previewing the world cup so please go check the others out and let me know your thoughts. So lets first look at the […]
Today we are going to look at group B in the World Cup. This is part of my series reviewing each squad in the World Cup in order to asses strengths and weaknesses and understand squad make up. If you haven’t seen the other Blogs go check them out group A went live yesterday and […]
Hello welcome to the first of my blogs looking at each group in the world cup. Over the next 8 blogs I hope to dissect each country’s squad and finally look at their chances of progressing and winning the cup. So today we start with group A which contains hosts Russia, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and […]
Hello this is going to be a shorter blog then normal I just felt I had to share the early findings. Inspired by the R4DS online learning community recent tidy Tuesday article in which we looked at a dataset which had the wages of various positions in the NFL. Reviewing it showed that while some […]
Hello welcome to another blog this time looking at win odds in the championship so far this year and comparing each teams odds. The aim is to review the data and see if their are any trends we can spot. To get the data i downloaded the raw CSV from the football data. The CSV […]
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