Friends of Tracking

Friends of Tracking will be back during April to June 2021. David Sumpter and Catherine Pfaff will, together with the other Friends (see below), meet guests working in football analytics.

Live every Thursday at 20:10 (European time), 19:10 (UK time), 01:40 (Mumbai India), 14:10 (East Coast USA) from 8th of April.

Friends of Tracking was set up by Pascal Bauer (Deutscher Fußball-Bund), Javier Fernandez (Barcelona), Suds Gopaladesikan (Benfica), Fran Peralta (Hammarby), Laurie Shaw (Harvard), David Sumpter (Uppsala University/Hammarby) and Alex Thomas (English FA). Visual recording sketches provided by Virginia Armas @sk3tchYourLife.

Our aim is to educate and inspire those interested in football analytics. The views expressed here are not necessarily the views of our employers.

A repository of code can be found here: https://github.com/Friends-of-Tracking-Data-FoTD/

A course developed on the basis of these videos is here: https://uppsala.instructure.com/courses/28112