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Predicting Euro 2024 (The recap)

  In the last weeks I have built 2 different models to predict the Group Stage results of Euro 2024. You can check the previous articles in my blog to understand how the model works. In this article I explained how the model predicts results. While in this article I explained how to predict the total goals. Over the course of the Tournament I have shared all predictions, from Match Day 1 to the [Final][final-predictions]. In this article I want to review the result of the model so far and see how good (or bad) those predictions where.     More on soccrbets.com

Shots conceded by the best defenses in the top European leagues

Shots conceded by the best defenses in the top European leagues With the start of Bundesliga, all European leagues have finally kicked off the 2024/25 season . This means that we can now take a look at statistics for the first matches and draw some comparison between leagues and teams. It’s still too early to make final conclusions, but it can be definitely interesting to look at early trends. In particular, I have noticed that quite a few teams have kept a clean sheet in all matches played so far. How good are their defenses? Is it because they are not conceding shots on target, or because their goalkeepers are world-class? To answer these questions, we need to select the teams that have not conceded a single goal (yet) calculate the number of shots on target conceded rank them by number of shots on target conceded In this way, the teams that have outstanding goalkeepers will be ranked at the top, since they have saved the highe...