Data Analyst
Pictured above is a chart which shows the estimated probabilities of the league position of each team after a round of matches – in this example Round 16 of the English Premier League at the end of 2020. * Liverpool, then top were leading Everton by 3 points with a 10 goal goal difference advantage…
ESPN have scorecards online of every test cricket match ever played, but unfortunately not in a very easy way to download and analyse offline. They have one webpage per calendar year – for example for the year 1946, the URL: https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/team/match_results.html?class=1;id=1946;type=year, gives the page that has a list of the test matches played that year.…
I downloaded ten seasons of Premier League football results and betting odds data (Bet365) from https://datahub.io/sports-data/english-premier-league (2009-2019 inclusive in ten CSV files). After drawing some charts with the data just looking at the relationships between the betting odds and the results, one potential strategy that stood out was betting on matches to be drawn under certain circumstances…