Well, 2021 has flown by, hasn’t it? What a year, at least in the footballing world, it has been. There was yet another all-English Champions League final as Chelsea triumphed in Porto against Manchester City, Alisson Becker scored a last-minute winning goal for Liverpool, Sporting brought their 19-year wait for a title to an end,…
It’s not often that school science experiments stick with you, or end up relating to football data, but this one clearly had an impact. We, as a class, were faced with a series of numbers like this: 6 2 8 1 0 2 9 3 1 0 2 2 6 1. If you try and…
Twenty3 are thrilled to announce TV 2 Sporten, the home of Premier League, Champions League and LaLiga in Norway, as the latest Content Toolbox customer. The Norwegian broadcaster has signed a deal that will give them access to the full suite of Twenty3 products as they look to add another layer to their on-air offering. …
Earlier this year, Twenty3 announced an innovative partnership with Sporting Kansas City which saw the MLS side roll out the Analytics and Content Toolbox across their Technical, Recruitment and Media teams. It was the first time a club had taken a hybrid approach with the Twenty3 Toolbox, but that’s to be expected with a franchise…
Football has come a long way. Less than a decade ago, narratives were shaped by how many shots a team racked up combined with the percentage of possession they’d had during the match. Then the expected goal (xG) metric was introduced and it helped paint a much better picture of a game. After all, quantity…
‘Tis the season of giving. With this in mind, we’ve given our Toolbox an update. Now, this is something of a regular occurrence, with our platform perpetually evolving, but this one – Release V – will help decide a number of family arguments tied to football that inevitably occur around this time of the year,…
Few teams in world football have the finances to have a transfer window that would not look out of place in Football Manager. Following the takeover in October, Newcastle United are now one of these exclusive clubs. The Magpies have the richest owners in the world and no player is off bounds. In the long-term,…
After one of the most entertaining MLS seasons in recent memory, the playoffs are almost upon us. Heading into the final matchday, three teams were still in contention to win the Western Conference. The Colorado Rapids, Sporting Kansas City and Seattle Sounders were all within a point of one another. In the end, it was…
Not long ago we caught up with experienced Performance Analyst and former Head of Analysis at West Bromwich Albion, Gerard Moore, to find out what life is like as a professional analyst. You can read that interview here. This time around, we gave Gerard the keys to our Event Lab tool to put his analysis…
Every club in the world would like their very own Mohamed Salah. The Liverpool forward turned out to be a bargain, relatively speaking. In the same summer Paris Saint-Germain paid over £200million to pry Neymar away from Barcelona, Salah returned to the Premier League in a deal believed to be worth in the region of…