'What do you mean?': GPTs and post-Opta Forum thoughts
Amid Open AI GPT news and the Opta Forum, Get Goalside considers why 'what do you mean' is such an important question.
Applying analytics
High-fat data for low(er)-fat costs
Trying to label defensive players in StatsBomb 360 frames which don't have individual player ID info...
The European Premier League
Get Goalside investigates how connected the Premier League is to Europe's top leagues vs the English Football League
Manchester United says 'hello world' to data science
With news that Manchester United are hiring data scientists, Get Goalside looks at the directions a clean slate at a rich club could take you
Do VARs dream of electric football commentators?
It's not often that Martin Tyler and the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference are mentioned in the same breath, so savour this newsletter while it lasts.
At this year's Sloan, two folks from Amazon and one from Fox Sports got together to publish a paper, titled 'Sports narrative enhancement with
Creating new data by stealing from basketball
An origin tale
A couple of weeks ago, I read an article on FiveThirtyEight. It was about a bit of basketball tracking kit, the Noahlytics Data Program, which gives you data on the angle of shots and where they go through the rim. (I only partly mention this because the
The Who, The What, and The Why of bringing advanced stats to the public
Get Goalside is returning to a regular schedule for the new season. A new newsletter will go out (at least) every other Thursday. early October sees a couple of big analytics events so there may be an extra one or two that month.
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