No Grass in the Clouds

No Grass in the Clouds

The Best Soccer Players in the World, According to an Algorithm

Mbappe or Messi? Bruno or Neymar? Thiago or ... Thomas Soucek?

Ryan O'Hanlon
Feb 12, 2021
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Sorry for the delay on today’s newsletter. Got zapped by a migraine yesterday and was out of commission for about 24 hours. Here ya’ go.

Back in October, I introduced you all to DAVIES, the possession-value metric model created by Sam Goldberg and Michael Imburgio. Why the word salad? DAVIES is a model of American Soccer Analysis’s Goals Added (or G+) mo…

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