Sports Analytics

Resources for Sports Analytics

As a sports enthusiast,I always explore data and stats with respect to all sports.There are a lot of resources for sports analytics which tells us the beauty of sports and data.

Sports has always been part of my life.

Resources for Sports Analytics:

All major resources in this blog is covered.If I miss out I will be updating it later.

Football:

• Fbref-One of the top football statistics site in which event data can be downloaded across all the famous leagues. https://fbref.com/en/

• UnderStat- https://understat.com/

• Transfer Markt- https://www.transfermarkt.co.in/

• PySport- All of us use different programming languages for our analysis. PySport is a wonderful site in which we can find lot of packages,data,tutorials,documentation for implementing sport analytics.

  https://pysport.org/

  They also have a great community and also on discord.The link to the discord link

• StatsBomb-One of the top sites for football blogs.Analysis is great and they also provide free data.There is a statsBomb conference on 17th March 2021 which is a free online event.Do not miss that.

• Other football blog sites-

  • https://www.fourfourtwo.com/

  • https://fivethirtyeight.com/sports/

• Tutorials-

  • https://fcpython.com/

  • http://fcrstats.com/

  • Friends of Tracking Youtube-link

  • Tableau for Sports-link

• Conferences-

  • https://statsbomb.com/conference/

  • Opta Sport Conference-link

Basketball:

There is another sport in which lot of analytics is being done and no surprise.Its Basketball.

Recently,NBA Team Utah Jazz used Python Dash in players draft for the season 2020-21 article

Resources for BasketBall-

• https://www.basketball-reference.com/

• https://www.positiveresidual.com/

• https://in.nba.com/?gr=www

• https://github.com/josedv82/shinyAMS-resources For R Shiny

Tennis:

• http://tennisabstract.com/

Cricket:

• https://cricsheet.org/downloads/

• https://wisden.com/

For R Programmers:

• R Resources/Guide for Sports Analytics

  There is a lot more to come .I’ll keep this blog post updated.If you are interested in sports analytics and wanted to work along with me ping me on Twitter link