Data science and modelling of football

A half-day introduction to using machine learning and modelling in football for data Scientists, PhD students and industry professionals. We will go through how to use logistic regression to fit an expected goals model of quality of chances. We will go on to look at models of pass success and value using other ML methods. By the end of the day you will understand how to use football data and to fit simple models to it. This lecture will also provide an introduction to the challenges of putting data science in to practice.

Teacher: Prof. David Sumpter (Uppsala University)