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Lukasz's avatar

Those "—" dashes come from you or AI? ;)

MartinOnData's avatar

Used to hide them, kind of got to like them by now :)

Warren Fauvel's avatar

Sorry for the multiple comments, error posting, error deleting... No idea why

Warren Fauvel's avatar

Really clear work, love the visuals too. I feel like there are a couple of other factors worth thinking about, namely:

- Injuries - history, recency, severity, recurrence - "the best ability is availability" after all (though this could correlate to games played)

- Attitude - no idea how you measure this, maybe something dumb like consistency of performance level across games - "he is always running"

- Competition - interest from other clubs, agent hyping... Maybe could be measured with news flow or some other metric from reputable sources

- Adaptability - do they offer more than one position... So you can get more from them

MartinOnData's avatar

Hi Warren,

If I had to rebuild the model myself, I'd have definitely tested the injuries part. Having said that, it will be correlated with the number of minutes played so I think this is at least partially covered for.

Attitude - this is like Declan Rice's aura that I mention in the piece. Those are the bits one cannot model.

Adaptability - that's a great idea. I think one can easily construct an index of the minutes a player played in different positions. I fear that for the most part players would be single-position so the signal might not be strong .. but worth the try.

Thank you for the comment!

Warren Fauvel's avatar

Really clear work, love the visuals too. I feel like there are a couple of other factors worth thinking about, namely:

- Injuries - history, recency, severity, recurrence - "the best ability is availability" after all (though this could correlate to games played)

- Attitude - no idea how you measure this, maybe something dumb like consistency of performance level across games - "he is always running"

- Competition - interest from other clubs, agent hyping... Maybe could be measured with news flow or some other metric from reputable sources

- Adaptability - do they offer more than one position... So you can get more from them

Warren Fauvel's avatar

Really clear work, love the visuals too. I feel like there are a couple of other factors worth thinking about, namely:

- Injuries - history, recency, severity, recurrence - "the best ability is availability" after all (though this could correlate to games played)

- Attitude - no idea how you measure this, maybe something dumb like consistency of performance level across games - "he is always running"

- Competition - interest from other clubs, agent hyping... Maybe could be measured with news flow or some other metric from reputable sources

- Adaptability - do they offer more than one position... So you can get more from them