Entries for the Liverpool Analytics Challenge

David Sumpter
3 min readMay 12, 2020

I was totally amazed how many entries their were for the ‘Friends oF Tracking’ Liverpool analytics challenge. The brief was:

1, Use one or more of the tools we have learnt so far (pitch control, speed and acceleration, passing networks, pass maps etc.) to analyse the data.

2, Feel free to combine with other data available from other sources on Liverpool.

3, Produce an output (short report/video) that can be communicated either to a coach, a video analyst or players.

4, Write technical details in a separate appendix.

5, Post a link in comments below and/or to Twitter using #FoT.

Below is a list of entires in no particular order. If I have missed you then please DM me on Twitter. Over the next week we will, together with coaches and analysts, be looking to find the ones that are best.

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High Risk Passes

Daryl Dao and Phu Tran

Spotting player decisions with tracking data

FS

Could better goalkeeper positioning prevent Liverpool from scoring?

Hugo Rios-Neto

Liverpool’s attack

Sathish Prasad V.T

Evaluation of Trent Alexander-Arnold

Adam Ruby

Analysing pitch control behind opposition defensive lines

Parth Athene

Liverpool Goal Scene Analyzer v1.0

Saenai

Liverpool and Manchester City in Premier League

Bharath J Nair

Deciphering the Liverpool Attack

Gerald Lim

How do you defend against Liverpool?

Surya Kocherlakota

They Scare Me!

Ashay Shah

Liverpool Team Report

Jernej

Attack with breakneck speed

Jorge González

Pitch Control

Hemnath

Liverpool FC attacking system

Theophane Gregoir and Paul Garnier

Considerations for opposition analysis

Ciaran Grant

Liverpool F.C. Goal Analysis: A dynamic zone evaluation model

Fußball Quantitativ

Liverpool Challenge

Florian Gottschlich

Zone System Analysis

Carlos Felipe Santacruz

Analysing Liverpool Attack

Gabin Rolland

Breaking Down Liverpool Attack

Lakshay Bansal

How can Liverpool benefit from this challenge

Mikhail Bulygin

Goal control: A Tracking-Based Metric for Modelling xG

Adam Sonty

GOALVID19

Vinay Warrier

Analyzing Liverpool’s attack.

Phillip Hollenhorst

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David Sumpter

Books: Four Ways of Thinking (2023); The Ten Equations (2020); Outnumbered (2018); Soccermatics (2016) and Collective Animal Behavior (2010).