Applied football analytics for scouting, performance, and storytelling.

I’m Marc Lamberts — a data analyst and scout. I build models for recruitment and performance, and write research-grade and data-journalistic analysis.

Finding players with the Innovative Pass Index

If you are reading this, you are probably very interested in what you can do with data in football. One of my flaws is that I constantly am looking for new models. I want to innovate and create, basically finding the next expected goals to be important in the analysis space. Okay, that’s perhaps more into my brain than needed, but it’s an important lesson for me: I don’t always have to create everything from raw data.

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Modelling distinct playing styles in Women’s football

There is a thing about women’s football what I don’t like and that’s the lack of publicly available data. And if there is data available, it’s often flawed and very small in variety. One of my aims for this year and the years to come is to help in changing that. Sharing my experiences and metrics, but also opening up possibilities to work with data.

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How many minutes do U25 players get in professional football in Limburg

This is a quite niche article, but I wanted to look at the minutes that the youth get in the professional teams of the province I live in: Limburg. There are four professional team in Limburg who play in two different divisions: VVV-Venlo and Fortuna Sittard play in the Eredivisie, and Roda JC and MVV Maastricht play in the Keuken Kampioen Divisie. In this article I will look at how many players under peak age have made minutes and how influential those players were.

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