Man City Analytics Community

Meatwad

excellent from them, they went up in my estimation.

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/home/the%20club/mcfc%20analytics

You have a unique opportunity to be part of this community. Register your interest in this project and we will send you our OPTA data set for every ‘on the ball’ event for every Premier League player in every match in the entire 2011-12 Premier League season FOR FREE.

This data is designed to be broken down, analysed, graphed and visualised however you see fit. We have made it available to encourage and inspire the next level of analytics. Our hope is that the data is used to create new performance measures, tools for player/team comparison and profiling, season-long analysis for benchmarking players’ performance and contextualising these performances based on playing position and opposition.

Burnwinter

Damn. I'd love to have that for Arsenal. However the rather oppressive licence and terms of use do mean that they're farming this 'community' for analytics R&D.

Mirth

Burnwinter wrote:
Damn. I'd love to have that for Arsenal. However the rather oppressive licence and terms of use do mean that they're farming this 'community' for analytics R&D.

Of course,but I'm surprised no one else has thought of this sooner. Given how willing football fans are to analyze games, this will definitely help build up a strong resource bank for them.

Klaus

Burnwinter wrote:
Damn. I'd love to have that for Arsenal.

Meatwad

Burnwinter wrote:
Damn. I'd love to have that for Arsenal. However the rather oppressive licence and terms of use do mean that they're farming this 'community' for analytics R&D.

"every Premier League player in every match "

Burnwinter

The "advanced" data is City only (unless your project is 'developing into an interesting area' ie has value to Opta or City).

I might register anyway just to check it out 🙂

Meatwad

i don't have time for the advance data anyway (even if it was arsenal only). processing that would be like work. full data is more than enough for me.

invisibleman18

I've registered for the full data set. I work as a data analyst anyway so something geeky like this definitely has me interested.

Burnwinter

Did you guys get an email when you signed up? Haven't seen anything yet.

banduan

isn't this redistributing for free what Opta gives out to subscribers? Cant imagine they'd like it?

invisibleman18

Burnwinter wrote:
Did you guys get an email when you signed up? Haven't seen anything yet.

No I didn't so I wondered whether I misspelled my email address. Guess there won't be anything until they send the data itself.

Burnwinter

I was wondering the same thing, but I'm now thinking they've probably got a human vetting the applications who's come down with the flu.

Timbob

Haha, you lads have just signed up for 10 months worth of email spam! Enjoy!

Rex

😆

Burnwinter

Couldn't be any worse than the shit you lot put up with from me 🙂

invisibleman18

Have just received the full data set.

Qwiss

I've got nothing so far. Fuck you City!

Klaus

Got the full data too earlier today.

Timbob

Any good?

Biggus

timBO! wrote:
Haha, you lads have just signed up for 10 months worth of email spam! Enjoy!

😆 Worse that that, they've joined the City of Manchester Analists community contacts list.