
Introducing Player Visualisations for Six Nations Rugby
This is a guest post written by Alex Rathke. With the Six Nations one week away, it was time I posted this. Last week, I released

EIS Skills for Performance – A Review
This is a guest post written by Ciaran Toner EIS Skills for Performance 2017 Why Skills for Performance… Every year the English Institute of Sport

The History of Sports Analysis
There is a constant myth portrayed that Sports Analysis is something invented in the 21st century. Designed by ologists to keep themselves in work. But

WoSo Stats – Get Experience
Just sending on CV’s doesn’t cut it anymore. Clubs are inundated with CV’s from enthusiastic, educated candidates. You’re enthusiastic? – Prove it! You know football?

Football and Data Event – Combining Video and Data
The following is a guest post from Dan Barnett. Many of you may know him on Twitter as @we_r_pl Dan has run a few Football Analytics events in

Elite Football Player Engagement with Performance Analysis
As an industry performance analysis research has for a long time been all about KPI’s and analysing what happens on the court, pitch or ring.

What can we learn from Skill Acquisition
Over the last few days I attended the Sports & Data Conference held in UCD. I will do a bigger round-up piece but just something

Plotting XY Data in Excel
XY Data can be very useful and it can make your visualisations really stand out. I have shown before how to do this in Tableau.

Should coaches start to speak some data?
During the week a tweet popped up in my timeline. I don’t disagree with the sentiment at all but should it not work both ways? Don’t get

How to Code Sport with Microsoft Excel
As part of the launch of the New Excel for Analysts Course, John Lythe (Excel Tricks for Sport) has put together the following free resource

Excel for Performance Analysts
Like it or loathe it Excel has not been around for over 30 years and is one of the most widely used software’s in the

EIS Skills for Performance
EIS Skills for Performance The English Institute of Sport (EIS) is looking for the next generation of support staff to join the team that has