Match Analytics For Your Team! (10/03/2014 00:24)

 

Win a free Analysis with the latest Free Wonderstar Cup!

- If you win a Wonderstar Player Cup, then as well as the trophy, cash prize and 1 credit, you will also get a free analysis for your team :-) You must be no higher than Q74 to enter as this is aimed at newer teams. Congratulations to Team Uruguay and FC Blatter, who have both won a cup and are eligible for a free analysis! The next Wonderstar Cup is now available, for Season 117 R30. Good luck!

  

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Wonderstar Analytics offer personalised Match Analytics for your own team!

 

These are detailed statistical breakdowns of your team's performance in different areas; similar to the Match Analytics ideas I've been introducing in the previous posts (plus some other stats). These stats are drawn from your match reports, and can help you:

 

Plus I just think they're enjoyable to have, and make your team feel more three-dimensional. :-)

Full details below, in the FAQ, but here's a quick summary. For 10 credits you'll get an analysis on a set of your team's matches. Note that each analysis can include as many matches as you like from one season - for example one analysis could be all your competitive games in a season, and another could be just your league matches. The number of these will be quite limited each season, because they take some time to run, so they will be provided on a first come first served basis. Because they cost some credits, they won't be available to you unless you've bought credits from the game (because you won't be able to donate). Sorry but I don't have plans to change this just now, or allow friendlies as payment: I think of it as providing some extra value if you support the game! There are two ways to get an analysis without buying credits: Win a contest I run on my blog, or win one of the Wonderstar Cups.

I'll only be running 15-30 of these per season, which means they're quite limited. Buying an analysis once (or winning one) means all your future analyses will be just 5 credits.

Since launching at the end of Season 111, 36 teams have received analyses. These included 9 Champion's League and 4 SuperCup teams in Season 113, and this will go up to 9 and 5 in Season 114: In fact, 14-out-of-16 top-division sides receiving analyses qualified for the International contests in Season 113! So far analysed teams have won 10 league titles and 9 league cups since getting their analysis (and have plenty of runner-up medals too), so congratulations to them! Season 114 is now open so if you want to join them get on it :-)

If you're interested, please send me a message in-game.

Details are covered in the FAQ below, in the meantime here are a few snapshots of the sort of thing you can expect to get (subject to change, which probably means improvement, and you also get a bunch of raw numbers to examine yourself):

 

 

 

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FAQ

 

1. How much does it cost?

The service costs 10 credits for your first analysis, then 5 credits per analysis after that. Remember each analysis is run on multiple matches (as many as you like).

 

2. Which games can I include? Can I mix and match competitions?

Absolutely, it's entirely up to you which games you include. You can keep different types of games apart if you want to analyse them separately - e.g. SuperCup games in one analysis, and league games in another. Or, you could divide up your matches according to something else, like tactics - to see the effect of playing a 4-5-1 versus a 4-3-3 for example, or how your tactics affect the types of possession you get - or perhaps look at all the games a particular player took your free-kicks, versus those he didn't. Whatever is going to be interesting for you, or help you optimise your team. For example, I put all of my competitive games into the same analysis, and ran the analysis over multiple seasons to track my progress. That's a simple thing to do, but you can be as clever or inventive as you like here!

 

3. Can I analyse a different team?

No - you can only analyse your own side (you'll also see your opponents' data, but they won't be separated by team). I might make this available in the future if there is demand for it.

 

4. I can't make credit donations! Will you accept cash / food / friendly matches?

No, I'm afraid not! It's a deliberate choice to make payment only through credits. Buying credits means you're supporting ManagerLeague, but there's not a whole lot to do with them apart from playing friendlies (or avoiding taxes through slightly-shady credit deals for players...). Making these analyses available only through credit donations enriches the game for people who choose to pay for it, and provides an extra reason for supporting the game which I think is important. I don't have plans to change this just now, or allow friendlies as payment: I think of it as providing some extra value if you choose to support the game! The only exceptions are the occasional Wonderstar Cup, or contests I run on this blog from time to time, which are open to everyone.

 

5. But you have a donation limit, what happens when you hit that?

Then my analyses for the season are done :-) I can't afford to spend too many hours running these - I have a job! - so the donation cap gives me a nice limit of around 20-30 teams per season. This also means that if you get an analysis done, you know you have a competitive edge, since only a handful of other sides will have the kind of data on their team that you do. Generally speaking this will work on a first-come-first-served basis.

 

6. How many datasets can I get analysed?

You get one dataset per analysis, and each dataset can contain as many matches as you like. You can even run analyses on games from previous seasons if I have it available, which I will do if you've used the service before. So, for example, you could run an analysis on your matches partway through a season to see how you could improve, then run another at the end which includes all your games.

 

7. What exactly do I get?

You'll get a 7-page pdf document with figures and statistics about your team. These include: Key stats, Match Progession Graphs, Possession Analytics - which includes Conversion Rate Breakdowns for different match situations - and some additional stats to help you guide your teamstat training, like offside-trap and set-piece success. I have also added some more detail about how your conversion rates look broken down further (shooting accuracy, chance creation, save percentage) and a huge spreadsheet giving you details about every indivdual match you played - from starting tactics for both sides, match outcomes like performance, chances or shots on target, and a detailed breakdown of possession! As well as all this, you'll also get a whole bunch of raw numbers used to generate the figure, in a csv file or excel spreadheet, to do whatever you want with.

 

8. Will you tell me exactly what it all means?

I can provide some basic pointers, but I might be way off base! And anyway, figuring out your best strategy is the fun part, right? Some things are pretty easy to interpret anyway: If your offside trap is working very well, you might want to train up your free-kick stat more to take advantage. If you're not getting many corners, but you are converting them into goals at a high rate, you could try shooting from further out to increase the number you win during a game. Or if you see that you're converting more chances into goals when playing long passes out of defence than when you play short ones, maybe you should switch from continental to long-ball. There's so many other things you could use to fine-tune your team, so this is really where your own skill and imagination can give you an edge. I can't tell you exactly how to improve simply because I don't have access to the inner workings of the sim - but I can provide you with the data to figure things out yourself, which I think is more interesting.

All that said, I do enjoy talking tactics. So if you have any questions about your stats feel free to message me about them!

 

9. How accurate is the data?

Pretty accurate; I have spent some time fine-tuning the analyser and it's been based on over 50,000 lines of action from various matches. But of course there's always the chance your game will have featured some very odd event, so I'd put the accuracy at 98-99% overall. Certainly good enough to draw conclusions from. One thing that could affect the accuracy of your reports is if you have renamed players during the season, or named them something that appears elsewhere in the match reports (e.g. you call someone "off-side", or they share a name with an opponent's player). If that's the case be sure to let me know, it should usually be straightforward to adjust for this when I run the analysis, so long as I know all the names your players have had.

 

10. I'm sold! What do I need to do?

You'll need an email address I can send the pdf and data to. Assuming I've still got spots available for the current season, then you can donate the credits and I'll run the analysis for you. If I've hit my donation limit, or simply don't have the time to run any more analyses in the current season, I'll let you know before you try to donate, and give you priority for the next season. Finally, if your matches include some players who you've renamed or sacked, you'll need to give me their names (so that I can identify their actions as being for your team, not your opponents).  

 

 

- Belizio

  

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