Every question you need to ask about running stats
Running stats in football aren't always used well, here's a bunch of questions to think about
Explainers
Everything you need to know about defensive statistics (well, the basics)
Defensive stats don't get as much attention as some other numbers, but here's what you need to know about them.
When is data 'right'?
Sometimes data is different coming from one source to another, so when are the figures 'right'?
Everything you need to know about expected goals
Expected goals is everywhere, and it kind of has been for quite a while. However, that doesn't mean everyone's had it explained nicely for them.
While Get Goalside does a lot of 'hardcore' analytics writing, it's also a newsletter for anyone just getting into football stats too. So this is
Everything you need to know about 'pitch control'
When I was -- at a guess -- seven years old, there was a kid's TV programme that tried to make science cool. One episode they stretched out, to full length, some fake intestines. In another, they demonstrated the extreme knowledge of physics that David Beckham must have to be
The *real* meaning of Moneyball
“The first thing they did was run you.”
That’s how Michael Lewis opens his seminal book Moneyball, which charts the story of the Oakland A’s 2002 season and the wider movement of data in baseball. It’s a good first line; it grabs you.
But it has nothing