- Level 2
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Level 2: Understanding Data in Football
Learn through Interactive examples how professional analysts apply statistical modelling to real footballing scenarios. Designed by experts who have worked in Ligue 1, Bundesliga and a leading statistician from the University of London.
Level 2: Understanding Data in Football. This course shows you how leading clubs use statistics and modelling to gain a competitive edge.
Both on and off the pitch, data is revolutionizing football. Clubs and companies collect a vast amount of data from each match in major competitions, tracking the movements of each individual player throughout the game and capturing every touch of the ball. With so much data available, it’s essential to have the right skills to make sense of it.
This course demonstrates the power of data, and looks at the key techniques analysts use to get the most out of it.
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This course shows you how top-flight clubs use statistics and data modelling to gain a competitive edge.
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It introduces the key statistical concepts analysts depend on.
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An in-depth guide to the topic, this advanced course teaches you how analysts use data models to find insights and complements the skills taught in other modules.
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Interactive examples show you how professional analysts apply data modelling to real footballing scenarios.
£99.99
This course is part of a Level 2 Qualification
This Course Includes:
- 6 Hours of content
- Developed by award winning football developers and experts
- Content provided by data scientists from the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, as well as a statistician from the University of London.
- Access on multiple devices
- The Level 2 Understanding Data in Football course is suitable for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of how data is used at the highest level of the game.
- CPD Accredited - Download your Certificate on Completion
Course Content
- Introduction to Statistical Analysis in Football
- Data Modelling in Football
- Modelling Expected Goals (xG)
Any of the modules can be taken by itself, but you’ll learn the most by taking all three in order.
Each module ends with an assessment: sometimes a multiple-choice quiz and sometimes an interactive exercise. When you’ve passed all three assessments, you’ll earn three CPD points.
- Why statistical analysis is useful and helps team succeed
- The four key concepts from statistical analysis and review examples
- How to identify what data is significant
- How to understand changes in data
- The importance of definitions within football data
- The basics of statistical modelling
- Why data models are useful
- How to use modelling to analyse players
- How to use modelling to analyse teams and tactics
- Selecting the inputs to use in a model
- Checking the output to evaluate a model
- The advantages of machine learning
- The advantages of machine learning
- The limitations of data modelling
- What Expected Goals (xG) measures
- Building an Expected Goals (xG) model
- The appropriate algorithms
- Testing an Expected Goals (xG) model
- How to use an Expected Goals (xG) model to analyse performance
- The advantages of using Expected Goals (xG) rather than goals
Who wrote this Course?
The information you’ll learn on this course was provided by data scientists from the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, as well as a statistician from the University of London. You can visit our Experts page to see a selection of the professionals who have contributed to our courses.
Our award-winning content team worked closely with the expert group to create a fully-interactive course based on their expertise. Our content team are not only football fans: we have years of experience creating digital learning for football professionals.
Who is it for?
The Level 2 Understanding Data in Football course is suitable for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of how data is used at the highest level of the game. You might be thinking seriously about a career in analysis, studying a related topic at university, or beginning a career in professional football.
The course is also suitable for people with a strong knowledge of the modern game, like coaches, football journalists or fans, who have a basic understanding of data in football and want to get to grips with how it actually works.
Are you ready to see the future of football?
FAQS
Once you’ve chosen your course, you’ll be taken to a web page where you can get started. You can take the course entirely in your browser. It’s made up of text pages with images, animations, interactive exercises and a final questionnaire. Audio narration will guide you through.
You can complete the course at your own pace. It’s yours for life, so you can revisit it whenever you want.
You can take the course entirely in your browser. You don’t need any other materials, but you might want to take notes on paper or on another device.
Our courses contain a lot of detail and hands-on interaction. This makes them difficult to use effectively on a phone or tablet. We recommend using your laptop or PC, with the largest screen you have access to.
We have done everything we can to make our courses accessible to those with visual, auditory and cognitive challenges. Please get in touch if we can support your learning in any way.
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