Publications by R by R(yo)
J.League Soccer 2021 Mid-Season Review!
Introduction The 29th season of the J.League is slightly different compared to a normal season as for the first time there are 20 teams fighting for the league title and 4 teams facing relegation into J2 as no teams were relegated last season due to impact of COVID on football finances. Kawasaki Frontale remain at the top of the table as they are...
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Creating a data pipeline with Github Actions & the {googledrive} package for the Canadian Premier League soccer data initiative!
In analytics for any particular field, it’s not enough to be able to create output (fancy charts, dashboards, reports, etc.) but also be able to collect the data you want to use in a easy, reproducible, and most importantly, consistent way. This is all the more important in a field like sports where throughout the course of a season, new data i...
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J.League Soccer 2021 Season Review!
Introduction The 29th season of the J.League was won, yet again, by Kawasaki Frontale who have now won 4 times out of the past 5 seasons. They still have some way to go to overcome Kashima Antler’s record of 8 league titles but this is still a monumental achievement. At the other end of the table, due to there being no relegation last season be...
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Solving the ‘preserving the sum after rounding’ problem for a soccer waffle viz
I recently came across a cool waffle viz for the top 20 shot-creating action players in the big 5 European soccer leagues done by Harsh Krishna on Twitter, see original Tweet here. He also posted the code in this Github gist with a call for help in solving an issue he was having with the preserving the sum of a group of metrics after rounding the...
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