Ratings in the Champions League
In the latest video uploaded on the Football Player Ratings YouTube channel, we look at ratings from the Champions League (and the Europa League): Can we say something about how…
EPL predictions
The preview of the coming English Premier League season has been uploaded to YouTube. Watch below, and then scroll down to see some additional comments!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-vFmhjcUjMA few days have passed since…
On-going work on understanding plus-minus ratings
Recently, a study of the properties of plus-minus ratings was initiated by Garry Gelade in collaboration with Football Player Ratings. The idea is to understand how our advanced plus-minus ratings…
Premier League 2019/2020 pre-preview
There has been a lull in the posting of new videos on the Football Player Ratings YouTube channel lately, and this is likely to continue for some weeks to come.…
Updated predictions for Norwegian football
As of May 21 2019, here are some updated predictions for the Norwegian top division: Clearly, Rosenborg has underachieved compared to initial predictions. Likewise, Odd has performed better than expected.…
Measuring the quality of leagues
How can we measure the quality of different leagues using player ratings? Our +/- model should facilitate this, given that there is enough interaction between players of different leagues. The…
Updated predictions for Eliteserien 2019
Before the top division of the Norwegian league system kicked off at the end of March, a preview video was posted on YouTube (see bottom of this post). By now,…
Simulating leagues, February 2019
On February 17, 2019, this video was published, explaining how we can use player ratings to predict the final league table, illustrated using the English Premier League. https://youtu.be/0usq8zr2B90 Download PDF
Top 20 club teams, February 2019
On February 3, 2019, the following video was published, presenting the club teams with the highest average rating when considering their 15 highest rated players.https://youtu.be/DGVZFZiQ1Ig Download PDF
Top 100 football players, January 2019
Published January 26, 2019, the following video presented the top 100 football players in the database according to a plus-minus rating.https://youtu.be/jLfACAC4V-I Download PDF