Football Rating Systems

Getting Started on a Football Rating Strategy

Published April 6, 2014

So I finally get round to starting this blog. There is the fun element of having a bet on football and picking winners, but also I am revisiting my interest in analysing football data.

This is something I enjoy and started to do in the mid 90s using soccer data sets, and before that it was helping my dad choose his v-plan 81 selections for the pools.

I am not a statistician or betting expert, but a software developer who hopes to learn more about betting on football, staking plans, value, and finding an edge.

What Is Since A Win?

The domain is a reference to the football sequence tables and recent form runs that appeared in newspapers prior to upcoming football fixtures. These tables would list football teams by how long it had been since a particular result, such as since a win or since a draw.

At the beginning I imported English and Scottish league results from Football Data and created simple rating methods based on articles found online. Most of the time I shall be coding or analysing rather than writing, but when I find something of interest I will share it.