Public vs professional analysis – create compelling content & become more employable
Join Jon Mackenzie and Oliver Gage and Hear invaluable insights and advice about how to get noticed by professional football clubs to gain employment …
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Unpaid Internships – the good, the bad & the ugly
Unpaid internships have been a controversial topic within football analysis for years. Since very recently, it was common for Premier League & Championship clubs to…
The Association of Professional Football Analysis announces merger with TheVideoAnalyst.com
The Association of Professional Football Analysis is delighted to announce the takeover of hosting duties for the content, courses and jobs board from Rob Carroll…
World Cup Knockout Rounds Tactical Analysis by Carl Carpenter
The World Cup knockout rounds wrapped up in arguably the greatest final (possibly match full-stop?) we could have asked for. Whether it was Messi getting…
The Man With a Plan – Carl Edwards
Carl Edwards is one of our ambassadors. With a background in coaching, his career has led him from New Zealand to Rotherham via the MLS.…
Big Sam – English football’s unlikely Revolutionary?
In the embryonic days of the Premier League, little in the way of sophisticated statistics, Sports Science or even nutritional knowledge was to be found.…
Automating Match Reports
I am a big believer in ‘if it can be automated, it should be’. Nothing pains me more than to see people constantly doing manual…
How are you managing your Data?
The Harvard Business Review reported that analysts spend over 80% of their time simply discovering or preparing data. A lack of strategy or architecture is…
Tableau for Sport Dashboard
In the latest series of Tableau for Sport video’s I wanted to created a summary dashboard for an entire season. I used some of the…
New Course: SQL for Sports
In early 2021 I hope to launch a brand new course – SQL for Sports. SQL (pronounced sequel) is one of the most widely used…
