Man City releasing EPL analytics to the public for free

CShine · Aug 28, 2012

This month Manchester City, the younger brother (and rival) of the better-known Manchester United, announced that it will release detailed data about the team for public consumption.

The club's press release noted that "the speed of growth for the discipline of performance analytics is essentially in the clubs' hands -- it is they who have bought the data at significant cost and the rest of the analytics community simply do not have access to the data at the same level ... But while there are many people in the analytics community right now who have the skills, desire and vision to make a difference in the performance analytics space...those people have no significant data to work with." By opening up this data and making it available to those within the analytics community Manchester City hopes to "encourage and inspire the next generation of analytics."

This move, while essentially unprecedented in the soccer world, fits clearly within larger cross-sector trends of making data open to harness the distributed human capital and innovative potential of hobbyists, enthusiasts, and geeks with pro-level skills. The history of success of making data available to the wonks who want to use it bodes well for the future of soccer analytics; we may be at a watershed moment.
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This data set is every 'on the ball' event for every Premier League player in every match from the entire 2011-12 Premier League season.
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Several relevant links can be found here.

mrvp · Aug 28, 2012

CShine said: ↑

Several relevant links can be found here.
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or here:

https://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/the-door-to-linear-weights-starts-to-creak-open.1973030/

Sorry I should have made the title more obvious

CShine · Aug 28, 2012

Yeah, I'm not a regular on the stats board and that thread title didn't tip me off to it. I'll look forward to everything y'all can do with the data.

Mods, please merge with the other thread.

mrvp · Aug 28, 2012

and I'm happy for the title of mine to be changed to make it more friendly if it helps - I just read it somewhere else and thought that this might be that moment and it stuck with me (but it isn't immediately obvious to people looking in).