Pass masters: Man City, Ajax and Rangers head possession ranking. Celtic in top 10
November 19 – Manchester City, Ajax and Glasgow Rangers head a ranking of European clubs by possession in the latest report from the CIES Football Observatory.
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Sancho and Sessegnon head global ranking of ‘experienced’ young players
October 17 – Two English players top an ‘experience’ ranking of young players. Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho (pictured) and Tottenham’s Ryan Sessegnon lead the way in a top 20 that has ten young players coming from Europe’s Big 5 leagues and four of them from England’s Premier League.
ESSA data shows match-fixing still a danger to football integrity and a threat to esports
By Paul Nicholson
February 14 – Sports betting integrity body ESSA reported 267 match-fixing alerts to the relevant sporting and/or regulatory authorities for investigation in 2018, 83 of those cases were reported in the last quarter.
PSG top goal scoring efficiency in Europe, Arsenal lead in England, Dortmund in Germany
January 30 – Paris St-Germain lead all European teams when looking at the most efficient shots-to-goal ratios. PSG so far this season have scored every 4.7 shots.
Barca and Liverpool lead ball-in-play stats but Bundesliga heads Big 5 league average
December 4 – Fans who want to see the ball in play get the best value of money in Europe’s Big 5 leagues if they watch the Bundesliga where the ball is in play on average 58.5% of the time. Sweden’s Allsvenskan tops the list of European leagues though with the ball in play 60.2% of the time.
Man City secures global data deal with Acronis and commit to global education programme
November 26 – Manchester City, generally a first-mover wherever digital touches football, has signed a global multi-year partnership with Acronis, who will become the club’s Official Data Backup and Storage Partner.
Sportradar joins with SPARK for data initiative and streetfootballworld for CSR
May 4 – Digital technology acceleration platform SPARK, and sports data and technology giant, Sportradar, have joined up to boost innovation in sports data.
Spurs break 80,000 barrier again as Round 33 continues to fill Premier League grounds
April 19 – Spurs packed in more than 80,000 for a Premier League home fixture at Wembley for the fourth time this season, their third highest league attendance of the season.
Premier League is the most uncompetitive national competition in Europe, finds report
April 2 – The big just keep on getting bigger, with the gap to the minnows ever increasing, is the obvious conclusion from research looking at the percentage of matches with a gap of three or more goals across 29 European competitions.
Data gurus and bookies to focus on increased stats usage at Betting on Football
March 15 – The use of match stats in broadcast and turning the betting experience into a more immersed entertainment activity will be discussed at the Betting on Football conference, March 20-23, at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium.
Size matters – Pulis likes his players big, Guardiola prefers small
October 31 – Big is beautiful if you are West Brom, but small is more perfectly formed if you are Man City, Barcelona, Real Madrid or Olympique Lyonnais.
Perform builds performance data powerhouse with Scout7 acquisition
By Paul Nicholson
October 19 – Perform Group has bought sports technology company Scout7 adding a deeper level of sports data to its media and professional services businesses. Scout 7 will work closely with Perform’s OtpaPro, developing new “product set” of performance data and scouting solutions.
Celtic are champions of Europe’s possession stats
September 26 – Possession stats have become a staple of the TV presentation package and an indication of how games are progressing – generally winning teams have the majority of possession. Celtic top a ranking of European clubs this season, with a thumping 70.8% of ball possession.
Barnsley’s £20m sale nears completion with Mr Beane in the wings with his data sheets
September 18 – The £20 million takeover of Championship club Barnsley looks likely to complete in the next two weeks when the English Football League complete their integrity tests on the proposed new ownership group of Chinese billionaire Chien Lee and US businessman Paul Conway.
Caught in a Bear trap. WADA forced to scrap ADAMS upgrade and take $1.35m hit
By David Owen
August 31 – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has been forced to scrap original plans for a new version of its ADAMS data management system at considerable expense.