⚽ 𝐊𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐏𝐲 Another day, another big open-source football analytics announcement! 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐩𝐲, a Python package to load, synchronize and analyze football tracking and event data, now directly supports loading data with 𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲.

...,while also using sponsorship opportunities to grow the open source football analytics ecosystem and offer our volunteer developers a financial incentive to spend their valuable time developing and growing the industry's most valuable open-source package even further.

As 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭, we are delighted to have the ability to collaborate closely with key players in the industry. These partnerships help us strengthen the tools and infrastructure that the community relies on...

This is a sponsored 𝐊𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 release (v3.18.0) that sees 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 integrate 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓 as a data provider within our 𝐊𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 Python package. 📎 github.com/ImpectAPI/op...

🔷 𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐯𝟑.𝟏𝟖.𝟎 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓 Today marks another big day for football analytics! Together with @impect-official.bsky.social we release a novel dataset with event data for the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑/𝟐𝟒 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚. 📎 kloppy.pysport.org

🔷 𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐯𝟑.𝟏𝟖.𝟎 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓 Today marks another big day for football analytics! Together with @impect-official.bsky.social we release a novel dataset with event data for the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑/𝟐𝟒 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚. 📎 kloppy.pysport.org

SkillCorner data will remain open and accessible outside of the Analytics Cup via a dedicated GitHub repository 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 github.com/SkillCorner/...

If you have not registered yet, do so now to not miss out on a chance to showcase your work at the live event in Paris! 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐔𝐩 pysport.org/analytics-cup

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 - 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 Last week we announced the first ever 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐗 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩. Due to the overwhelming interest we have made the decision to close registrations on 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 (𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐂𝐄𝐓). 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐔𝐩 pysport.org/analytics-cup

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 - 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 Last week we announced the first ever 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐗 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩. Due to the overwhelming interest we have made the decision to close registrations on 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 (𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐂𝐄𝐓). 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐔𝐩 pysport.org/analytics-cup

On the subject - how much appetite is there on bluesky for a kind of 'football/soccer analytics paper book club'? (idk how it would work, there's lots of ways it could, but the thoughts been floating in the back of my head for a while. My instinct would be to pitch it at 'approachable' level)

🎉 penaltyblog v1.6.1 is out! ✨ What's new: - Python 3.14 support - scipy 1.16+ compatibility - Better numerical stability for Negative Binomial model - New Colab notebook for implied probabilities example pip install --upgrade penaltyblog

We’re excited to launch the 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐗 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩 - a hackathon-style challenge that will bring together the community to collaborate, compete, and innovate using open-source SkillCorner data. 👉 Sign up pysport.org/analytics-cup

We’re excited to launch the 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐗 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩 - a hackathon-style challenge that will bring together the community to collaborate, compete, and innovate using open-source SkillCorner data. 👉 Sign up pysport.org/analytics-cup

🚨 Call for Speakers! PySport × PyData Eindhoven is back on Dec 9, 2025 🏟️ We’re looking for 7 Sports Analytics talks – share your project with the community! 💡 Submit now: cfp.pydata.org/pydata-eindh...

🔷 𝗸𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝘃𝟯.𝟭𝟳.𝟭 Yesterday, we pushed a new minor release (3.17.1) to fix some minor (yet annoying) bugs. 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬: github.com/PySport/klop...

🔷 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐗 𝐏𝐲𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬! 🔶 On December 9th @PyData Eindhoven and @pysport.org will organize 𝐏𝐲𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓! 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨: lnkd.in/eBGWKs3V

🤝 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫! In a landscape dominated by proprietary tools and fragmented standards, we're excited to announce our partnership with @impect-official.bsky.social to support a more open and interoperable future for football analytics.

🔷 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐗 𝐏𝐲𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 🔶 On December 9th @pydata.bsky.social Eindhoven and PySport will once again join forces to host an incredible one day event! The Call for Proposals (and more information in general) will follow soon, so if you have a cool project or idea brewing, stay tuned!

🚀 Ingestify 0.7.0 is live Parsing football data with kloppy is fun. The hard bit is fetching raw files and keeping them clean and version-safe. That’s the gap Ingestify fills. github.com/PySport/inge...

🩵 𝐊𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐯𝟑.𝟏𝟕.𝟎 + 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧! Last week we released a new version of Kloppy that includes fully reworked documentation and support for 3 new tracking data providers amongst dozen of other features and improvements! 🔗 kloppy.pysport.org

👀 Something's changed at kloppy.pysport.org We’ve completely rewritten and reorganized 𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲's documentation, now with: • 🚀 Quickstart Guide for new users • 📖 API Reference for power users Dive in & let us know what you think! @pysport.org 🤩

🎉 𝐊𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝟓 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬! Today, Kloppy celebrates 5 years since @koenvossen.bsky.social released v0.1.0! Over the past 5 years Kloppy has grown to support 9 tracking data providers, 6 event data providers and many more functionalities. On to the next 5 years! 🍾

penaltyblog v1.2.0 is released! ✅ Elo Ratings now football-specific (home advantage + draw probabilities) ⚡️ Fast Cython implementations of Ignorance Score & Multiclass Brier Score 📝 Updated docs / examples for Elo, Pi Ratings, RPS & more github.com/martineastwo...

Stats Perform are looking for someone to join the data analysis team to work along side Jonny Whitmore and Jon Manuel. If you're passionate about football data and want to shape how we see the game through engaging visualisations, be sure to apply! ⚽️📈📊 #dataviz t.co/lOaOOtBJAY

We are looking for a Data Analyst to support performance functions of Tottenham Hotspur. Lots of interesting projects ahead, a lot to learn about football and lots of space to develop tech skills (I'll help here). More details on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

🚨 We're hiring at Chelsea FC!🔵 🚨 This is a unique opportunity to join our analytics team and be at the heart of decision-making at a fantastic club. Full Stack Web Developer: linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... Data Engineer: linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... Full post: www.linkedin.com/posts/javion...

⚽ New blog post - which football prediction model is the best? Poisson, Weibull, or Negative Binomial — each has its strengths and weaknesses. Learn how to optimise them for accurate match predictions using my penaltyblog Python package. pena.lt/y/2025/03/10... #FootballAnalytics #DataScience

⭐ 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐗 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑇𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑠 are available for our 𝑃𝑦𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑋 Stats Perform event in London on March 17th! 🎙️ We'll have various talks by Jonny Whitmore & @dannydinsdale.bsky.social, Sebastien Coustou, @tk5.futbol, Manuel Bassek (Floodlight) and more!

⚽ 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐗 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 We're excited to announce that 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑇𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑠 are now available for our 𝑃𝑦𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑋 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑠𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 London event on March 17th!

⚽ 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 Videos of the American Soccer Insights Summit are now online! www.youtube.com/@ASISummit

🔨 "𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏-𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝑨𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔"

Blogged about it being a little silly for every football club to set up their own versions of the same infra, FIFA, and @pysport.org's Open-Source Avengers get-goalside-newsletter-archive.beehiiv.com/p/who-win-pr...

This is awesome

This is a great initiative by @PySport! A common theme in the discussion was how many started their projects to learn. For me, contributing to open-source and collaborating with others has been instrumental in becoming a better programmer. Excited to see what’s next! 🚀

🌉🌁 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬! We brought together contributors from different open source projects to discuss how we can align our work and improve interoperability in football analytics. Looking forward to the next steps. #FootballAnalytics #OpenSource #PySport

Hockey Analytics folks! One of the best conferences, LINHAC, has their research submissions open for the 2025 program until April 25. There is a wide range of research topics and depth of analysis that you can submit so there is something for everyone! www.ida.liu.se/research/spo...

🚀 New 𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 release that now includes a full @pola.rs back-end, alongside an easy way to create 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚 matrices (and video).

The Athletic is hosting a Talent ID day on March 18th at the London HQ to help identify the next generation of sports journalists. If you’re 18+ & UK based, send 100 words on why we must invite you and your CV to: [email protected] The deadline is next Friday (21st).

🚀 Great to see this improved data structure! Glad we could be of some help with this. Thanks @pff-fc.bsky.social!

🔹 Really awesome to see this publication and release! Go check it out, and in case anyone has missed it, these 7 games of DFL tracking + event data have been integrated into kloppy as per the last release (3.16.0) github.com/PySport/klop...

Looks like you need some Indian and Arfican representation.... mplsoccer use over the last 12 months.

🌍 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 We're still looking for more responses to the 2025 PySport Survey! Since our last post we've been able to add: - 🇧🇷 Brazil - 🇮🇹 Italy - 🇮🇩 Indonesia 👉 forms.gle/uHqr3NcePzbB...

And if you don't know what shot-plotter.netlify.app is: its a free, open-source tool by me to make it easier to compile locational event data in sports. Its super easy to use right out of the box, but has a bunch of customizability to suit near anything you want to do. Check it out!

⭐ 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 We've had responses to the PySport 2025 Survey from all over the world, but we'd like to hear from many more people! If you have not yet filled out the survey, please do so at: forms.gle/sB5vM2Ac81oq...

⭐ 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 If you haven't already please take 5 minutes of your time to fill out this short PySport survey. It would help us out tremendously! forms.gle/FS6BBPxXKdEm...

⭐ 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 If you haven't already please take 5 minutes of your time to fill out this short PySport survey. It would help us out tremendously! forms.gle/FS6BBPxXKdEm...

⭐ 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Are you bored on a Friday? Why not take 5 minutes to complete the 2025 𝑃𝑦𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛-𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦. 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 👉 forms.gle/WKiJLVLSvdK7...

🔹 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 - 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 - 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 🔹 At PySport we would like to learn more about the use of open-source tools within the sports analytics community. Please help us by filling out the 𝑃𝑦𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛-𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦. 👉 forms.gle/GCGtwek9eEtN...

🔹 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 - 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 - 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 🔹 At PySport we would like to learn more about the use of open-source tools within the sports analytics community. Please help us by filling out the 𝑃𝑦𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛-𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦. 👉 forms.gle/GCGtwek9eEtN...