Numbers Game Machine Learning Football Predictions

Welcome to numbers_game

Similarly to going for a pint on a warm summers Saturday, we at Numbers Game have no idea where we will end up with this (however, likewise with our hypthetical pint, hopefully not in a kebab house in the early hours).

But we do know where to start, at least. We believe there is a gaping hole in the market for a punter-friendly, no-nonsense football statistics website that gives you all of the information you need, without any of the stupid paywalls, obnoxious SEO or intrusive adverts. We will not attempt to intice you with local milfs, miracle hairline retrieval or ask to send you notifications (absolutely no relevance here but still really annoying) - we will just present the raw, unadulterated data for you to do with whatever you please.

Like it or not, in-depth football analytics are already the backbone of all transfer policies worth their salt (look away united fans), and so metrics like xG, xGC, xPG & PPDA (wtf ????) are becoming increasingly prominant in contempary football dialogue.

Fans of played-out, cringe inducing cliches will enjoy the following obligatory nod to Moneyball.

numbers_game favourite Matthew Benham has proven beyond all resonable doubt (not that such a thing exists in 2021) that incorporating big data and in depth number crunching is in fact a better scouting strategy than trusting the previous managers brother in law who's been watching grass roots football since he was 30.

As elite footballers continue to be driven more and more by the data, numbers_game head honchos expect the trend to continue regress toward the mean. Guardiolas' city have shown that incredblely efficient footballers, organised in an extremely effective system, can acheive things previously thought impossible (like selling 20,000 tickets).

So, please watch this space - we have plenty of exciting featurees coming soon to a numbers_game near you.

Visit https://numbersgame.uk/predictions to see all of our latest predictions and data.