Handy analytics resources

A bunch of links to useful resources of various different types.

They're split into three sections:

• conferences/research, which can help keep up-to-date with the latest advances in football analytics
• guides/courses, helping to get started with football analytics yourself (not an exhaustive list, but if it was it'd take all day to read it)
• tools: coding packages

Conferences/research-related links:

• Stats Perform Pro Forum presentation videos (collected together by Ben Torvaney)
• StatsBomb conference presentation video playlists (and if you prefer in PDF form, they're easily searchable online too)
• New England Symposium on Statistics in Sport (NESSIS) presentation videos (NESSIS website here) - multi-sport event
• Sloan Sports Analytics Conference website - features research papers back to 2019 - multi-sport event

Guides/courses:

• 'Friends of Tracking' YouTube series (includes creating shot maps, pass maps, heat maps, expected goals model, pitch control model)
• Github repository for the course is here

Tools:

• Directory of useful sport-specific coding packages (predominantly in R and Python)