Can You Teach Footballers to Choose the Best Pass?
Using reinforcement learning to improve ball-destination decisions across different phases of possession.
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Can Tracking Data Detect Tactical Formation Changes?
An unsupervised framework for identifying formation periods and player role changes during football matches.
The Physics Behind Football’s Hardest Passes
Modelling ball trajectories and reachable areas to quantify the execution required for successful passes.
Monthly xG Report — July 2026
Your monthly guide to the best football analytics insights and research summaries.
Turning Football Tracking Data into Tactical Graphs
A lightweight graph neural network for modelling player interactions and possession recoveries.
TI #032: What Tracking Data Reveals About Defensive Control
Timeless Insights #032
How Do You Put a Value on Defending?
VDEP, a tracking-based model that evaluates team defense through recovery probability and attacking risk.
You Should Make Football Metrics Smarter Before Modelling
Domain-specific feature engineering for more interpretable and reliable defensive performance analysis.
Building a Real-Time Football Prediction Machine
A scalable axial transformer model that combines live match events, player and team context, and game-state changes to forecast outcomes at match, team, and player level.
TI #031: Defensive Responsibility Changes the Defensive Question
Timeless Insights #031