Lessons from the NFL for football: Explosive plays analytics marclamberts.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

Developed a new model, Expected Transition Threat (xTT): losing/winning a ball in a certain area will lead to conceding high/low threat. To analyse, we need to look at other metrics like average offensive line, possession and style of play, but this is fun.

Emergence Index: Can we use a mid-research metric to draw conclusions about talent potential? ⚽️📊 Introducing a work in progress in measuring development in football using ages + minutes to assess potential talents. marclamberts.substack.com/p/a-mid-proc...

Exciting times, finally posting a new article again. I'm in the midst of a big research on how we can use data to predict future performances and mid-process you create metrics/scores to help you along. There's merit in sharing the process, even if the results might be negative

Apparently I wasn't allowed to look at LinkedIn Lords anymore, so here's my new LinkedIn if you want to connect; www.linkedin.com/in/marc-lamb...

All's Well That Ends Well... With a Long Throw-in (from 27-09-2025) A data analysis of long throw-ins in the Top 5 European leagues + Eredivisie marclamberts.substack.com/p/alls-well-...

What tactical state happens after a dribble? marclamberts.substack.com/p/what-tacti...

Lessons from the NFL: Explosive Plays Analytics ⚽️🏈📊 I turn to the NFL analytics and adapted their Explosive Plays for football. The focus is on making plays from possession, which involve goal kicks, deep free kicks, kick-offs, and defensive throw-ins. marclamberts.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

Chain Reaction Tackle Value: how impactful are won tackles in attacking progression marclamberts.substack.com/p/chain-reac...

ICYMI: Goalkeeper Value Model Creating an actionable Goalkeeper Value Model that can be used in performance analysis + set piece analysis marclamberts.substack.com/p/introducin...

Morninggg

Lessons from the NFL: Explosive Plays Analytics ⚽️🏈📊 I turn to the NFL analytics and adapted their Explosive Plays for football. The focus is on making plays from possession, which involve goal kicks, deep free kicks, kick-offs, and defensive throw-ins. marclamberts.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

VVV-Venlo play football again. It's been ages I've been to a live game as a fan.

The Sky is the limit: Introducing the Aerial Spatial Impact Rating ⚽️📊 Using correlation we can see that there is little predictability between traditional aerial dominance metrics and points per game. With ASIR, we have a higher correlation. marclamberts.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...

Been into diving into NFL analytics, and I feel like a kid again.

It’s good have a path in front of you, but in all honesty we don’t speak enough about in professional football: the doubts that can occur in the analysis/recruitment fields. Am I good enough? Should I do things differently? Why are my peers progressing and I am not?

The Sky is the limit: Introducing the Aerial Spatial Impact Rating ⚽️📊 Using correlation we can see that there is little predictability between traditional aerial dominance metrics and points per game. With ASIR, we have a higher correlation. open.substack.com/pub/marclamb...

The Sky is the limit: Introducing the Aerial Spatial Impact Rating ⚽️📊 Using correlation we can see that there is little predictability between traditional aerial dominance metrics and points per game. With ASIR, we have a higher correlation. open.substack.com/pub/marclamb...

Every season I take one specific league, watch majority of the games, release all my data analysis + engineering on that league and create models/apps. Best thing I've done to get to know the league on a deeper level. This season? Portugal 1st tier.

All's Well That Ends Well... With a Long Throw-in A data analysis of long throw-ins in the Top 5 European leagues + Eredivisie marclamberts.substack.com/p/alls-well-...

Finding players with the Innovative Pass Index Introducing Innovative pass index: a metric to find players who excel at finding attacking, progressive solutions. marclamberts.substack.com/p/finding-pl...

Introducing the Goalkeeper Value Model (GVM) 🧤 Creating an actionable Goalkeeper Value Model that can be used in performance analysis + set piece analysis marclamberts.substack.com/p/introducin...

Morninggg

Which teams are leading the set piece leaderboards in woso? marclamberts.substack.com/p/which-team...

All's Well That Ends Well... With a Long Throw-in marclamberts.substack.com/p/alls-well-...

Forgot coffee in my morning routine. Pain.

Using Hidden Markov Models on dribbles to see how much a dribbles progresses attacks in the English Premier League 2025-2026. marclamberts.substack.com/p/what-tacti...

Set to watch Excalibur (1981) again.

Which teams in women's football are most effective and reliant on set pieces? In this article I discuss how important Set Piece xG is for teams, as well as their reliance on different set pieces: corners, free kicks and throw-ins. marclamberts.substack.com/p/which-team...

All's Well That Ends Well... With a Long Throw-in ☄️⚽️📊 Using historical data (2022/2023 - 2025/2026) from Top 5 European leagues + Eredivise, I've analysed long throw-in trends, volume and quality. Are they truly back? substack.com/home/post/p-...

All's Well That Ends Well... With a Long Throw-in ⚽️📊 Using historical data (2022/2023 - 2025/2026) from Top 5 European leagues + Eredivise, I've analysed long throw-in trends, volume and quality. Are they truly back? Shares appreciated 😊 marclamberts.substack.com/p/alls-well-...

Here’s the top 20 players in those five leagues for quality of throws into the box in the last 12 months. Note how some clubs are really leaning into it (Brentford, Hoffenheim, Parma, RBL). Kayode is also second for volume of throws into the box per 90 in this period

Is the long throw-in making a comeback? It seems that the Bundesliga was early on the trend that's happening in Premier League now, but the Premier League has seen an explosive growth in long throw-ins. La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A don't seem to take part in this particular trend.

First time really scouting U20 world cup, fun times ahead.

tw: suicide, depression Living with depression is life disrupting, debilitating and cruel. Constantly fighting with and against your own mind. It’s okay to not be okay. It’s equally okay to be okay. You’re enough. You’re loved❤️ DMs always open. Always.

What tactical state happens after a dribble? Using Hidden Markov Models on dribbles to see how much a dribbles progresses attacks in the English Premier League 2025-2026. Moving from event data to tactical states. marclamberts.substack.com/p/what-tacti...

Interesting point. I don't have the data on this at hand, but I feel this also is happening in the Eredivisie and as a consequence the quality of the league is shifting from a distinct top-mid-bottom quality to a top-bottom quality, the extremes rule.

What tactical state happens after a dribble? Using Hidden Markov Models on dribbles to see how much a dribbles progresses attacks in the English Premier League 2025-2026. Moving from event data to tactical states. marclamberts.substack.com/p/what-tacti...

Expected Danger: modelling a hybrid shot model with emphasis on blocked shots marclamberts.substack.com/p/expected-d...

Scraping Soccerdonna: a Python package marclamberts.substack.com/p/scraping-s...

Introducing the Stretched Play Value-model (SPV) - NWSL Can we use event data to suggest off-ball presence without tracking data? It's tricky, but it can lead to interesting insights + creative process with data. #NWSL marclamberts.substack.com/p/stretched-...

Scraping Soccerdonna: Created a scraper for Python to collect biography data from Soccerdonna marclamberts.substack.com/p/scraping-s...

Introducing the Stretched Play Value-model (SPV) - NWSL Can we use event data to suggest off-ball presence without tracking data? It's tricky, but it can lead to interesting insights + creative process with data. #NWSL marclamberts.substack.com/p/stretched-...

Introducing the Goalkeeper Value Model (GVM) Creating an actionable Goalkeeper Value Model that can be used in performance analysis + set piece analysis marclamberts.substack.com/p/introducin...

The longer I work with raw data, the more I realise how many biased decisions are made. Which isn't inherently bad, but how we should always be aware of it.

I have created a python package for scraping Soccerdonna data! In a few lines you can get access to an excel with biography + general data for complete leagues in women's football marclamberts.substack.com/p/scraping-s...

Calculating triangular third-man runs with event data: how reliable are the results? marclamberts.substack.com/p/calculatin...

Scout report: Olivia Smith 2024–2025 The youngster with enormous potential has moved to Arsenal from Liverpool. What do the stats say? marclamberts.substack.com/p/scout-repo...

@jaseziv.bsky.social question re worldfootballR: player transfer history still working? I get 0 rows and 0 columns for every player.