I, like many on here I imagine, have been on a learning curve over the last few years in terms of appreciating the new "science of the beautiful game". I thought that it might be useful to share resources in order to help others on a similar journey. Below I have listed some sources of stats-based football commentary which came to mind off of the top of my head. Please do share analysis, thinking on methods, commentary, and sources of the "new" football analysis:
https://understat.com/
xG is the basic statistic of the new football analysis. Standing for "expected goals", xG measures what the score might have been if luck had been stripped out based on the quality of chances created. Understat records results of games in terms of xG and xA for top leagues. (I don't know how to find these stats for the Championship... Anyone?)
Statsbomb
Ted Knutson's site, podcast, and company which uses mathematical modeling to understand how football clubs can get an edge. Of course Ted spent one summer employed by SmartOdds so they have lots of Brentford content....
David Anderson
Beesotted's stats man, who has a great blog on medium which looks at stats and the Bees.
Michael Lewis' Moneyball
Michael Lewis is arguable the greatest non-fiction writer of his generation. MOneyball is the story of how stats revolutionised the strategy of baseball and the rise of the small-market Oakland Athletics when they did a Brentford...
21st Club
https://www.21stclub.com/
Have some great books available for cheap which look at football analysis. Another stats-based consultancy.
Ryan O'Hanlon
https://twitter.com/rwohan?lang=en
A former editor at
The Ringer, O'Hanlon has started an awesome new email newsletter with both a free and paid subscription.
