Data & Systems

Football data collection transforms millions of live match events into structured insights, but most clubs and analysts still misunderstand where their numbers actually come from.

Six platforms challenge SofaScore across live scores, advanced metrics, and professional scouting. The right choice depends on your data workflow, not your app store rating.

FootyStats Premium offers data breadth that few platforms match at the price. Whether that breadth produces signal or noise depends entirely on the workflow you bring to it.

Stats Perform’s Opta Power Rankings do more than count results. Here is how expected goals and opponent quality separate genuine club performance from fortunate table positions.

The number updates to the decimal in real time on your screen. FotMob ratings are widely used by fans, journalists, and analysts to assess individual football performances during live matches. What it is actually measuring, and how far a professional workflow should trust it, stays locked inside a proprietary black box. By David Findlay, Founder … Read more

StatsBomb IQ gives analysts access to one of football’s most detailed event datasets, but most departments track far too much and gain far too little signal from the platform.

Transfermarkt’s market values are trusted by millions but built on crowd-sourced editorial judgement rather than a data model. Understanding how the process works reveals exactly where to trust it and where to stop.

FBref gives analysts free access to xG, progressive passes, and pressing data across major competitions, but knowing which metrics to trust and which to cut is where the real analytical work begins.

Most teams tracking PPDA are measuring the wrong thing or applying it inconsistently. Here is what the metric actually tells you and what to cut from your pressing stack first.

Possession percentage dominates post-match analysis, yet the method behind the number varies by provider and its link to winning is weaker than most performance staff realise.