Sports data and analytics platform StatsBomb has been acquired by sports technology firm Hudl barely a decade after it started as a humble blog. Founded in 2013, StatsBomb has grown into a leading data and analytics provider in both soccer and American Football. The platform boasts clients across 35 countries, ranging from professional sports organizations […]

Cesc Fabregas has claimed that analyzing soccer statistics at a surface level can be deceptive. The former midfielder was arguably one of the top midfielders of his generation. Although he recently retired from the pitch in 2023, the Spanish playmaker starred for Arsenal and Barcelona from 2003 to 2014. Fabregas then moved on to play […]

FIFA is set to introduce brand new insights, metrics, and performance data for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar. These remarkable statistics shown on-screen will help provide more information to the television audience. Beginning at the 2022 World Cup, FIFA will collect and broadcast this more modern analytical data. These player and team statistics include […]

The Deutsche Football League, along with Amazon Web Services, announced two new match statistics for upcoming Bundesliga games. The stats join the league's Bundesliga Match Facts portfolio. This gives television viewers incredible insight in specialized area of play. Introduced in 2020, Bundesliga Match Facts provides innovative statistics in essentially real-time speed. The software collects 3.6 […]

The Deutsche Football League, along with Amazon Web Services, announced two new match statistics for upcoming Bundesliga games. The stats join the league's Bundesliga Match Facts portfolio. This gives television viewers incredible insight in specialized area of play. Introduced in 2020, Bundesliga Match Facts provides innovative statistics in essentially real-time speed. The software collects 3.6 […]

One thing I've always lamented since starting to follow soccer seriously is the lack of statistics that are readily available to the average fan. Other sports (I think of American baseball and football for examples) tend to have large volumes of statistics available to fuel fan debates about who really is the most dominant team, […]