This website is the companion to Soccer Analytics: An Introduction Using R by Clive Beggs (published in the Chapman & Hall data science series). This book is a practical and comprehensive introduction to soccer analytics, which shows the reader how tackle real-life problems often encountered in Association Football. As such, it is aimed at all those interested in analysing soccer data, be they fans, gamblers, coaches, sports scientists, or data scientists wishing to pursue a career in professional soccer.
The website is for all those with an interest in soccer stats and analytics. Therefore, in addition to talking about soccer it also contains short articles on statistics, which some might find of interest. Each of these are designed to give a quick overview of a specific subject.
Clive Beggs
Clive Beggs, the curator of this website, is Emeritus Professor of Applied Physiology in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. He is a PhD bio-engineer and physiologist, who has worked for many years with leading research teams around the world on a wide variety of medical and sport related projects. With a background in mathematical modelling of clinical and biological systems, he also has expertise in data analytics and machine learning, which he regularly uses in his sport performance work.
Being a multidisciplinary academic, Clive has published many peer-reviewed scientific articles in a wide variety of fields, a few of which are listed below.
Selected Publications
Sport:
- Bond A.J., Beggs C.B. Bisecting for selecting: using a Laplacian Eigenmaps Clustering Approach to create the new European Football Super League. Mathematics 2023, 11(3), 720; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11030720
- Dalton-Barron, N., Palczewska, A., Weaving, D., Rennie, G., Beggs, C., Roe, G. and Jones, B. Clustering of match running and performance indicators to assess between-and within-playing position similarity in professional rugby league. Journal of Sports Sciences. 2022. DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2022.2100781
- Beggs CB, Bond AJ. A CUSUM tool for retrospectively evaluating team performance: the case of English Premier League. Sport, Business and Management. 2020. 10(3), 263-289
- Beggs CB, Bond AJ, Emmonds S, Jones B. Hidden dynamics of soccer leagues: the predictive ‘power’ of partial standings. Plos one. 2019. 14 (12), e0225696
- Emmonds S, Nicholson G, Beggs C, Jones B, Bissas A. Importance of physical qualities for speed and change of direction ability in elite female soccer players. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research. 2019. 33 (6), 1669-1677
- Weaving D, Jones B, Ireton M, Whitehead S, Till K, Beggs C. Overcoming the problem of multicollinearity in sports performance data: a novel application of partial least squares correlation analysis. Plos one. 2019. 14 (2), e0211776
- Weaving D, Jones B, Till K, Abt G, Beggs C. The case for adopting a multivariate approach to optimise training load quantification in team sports. Frontiers in physiology. 2017.8, 1024
- Till K, …Beggs CB, Cooke C, Cobley S. A retrospective longitudinal analysis of anthropometric and physical qualities that associate with adult career attainment in junior rugby league players. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. 2017, 20 (11), 1029-1033
- Beggs CB, Shepherd SJ, Emmonds S, Jones B. A novel application of PageRank and user preference algorithms for assessing the relative performance of track athletes in competition. PlosOne. 2017. 12 (6), e0178458
- Till K, Jones BL, … Beggs CB. Identifying Talent in Youth Sport: A Novel Methodology Using Higher-Dimensional Analysis. PlosOne. 2016. 11 (5), e0155047
Medicine, Physiology and Health:
- Beggs CB, Abid R, Motallebi F, Samad A, Venkatesan N, Avital EJ. Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The Contrast between Indoors and Outdoors. Fluids 2024, 9, 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids9030054
- Butler MJ, Sloof D, Peters C, Morris AC, Gouliouris T, Thaxter R, Keevil VL, Beggs CB. Impact of supplementary air filtration on aerosols and particulate matter in a UK hospital ward: a case study. Journal of Hospital Infection. 2023 May 1;135:81-9.
- Jones B, Phillips G, Beggs C, Calder J, Cross M, Pearce N, Readhead C, … Kemp S. Team Sport Risk Exposure Framework-2 (TS-REF-2) to identify sports activities and contacts at increased SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. British journal of sports medicine. 2021. 55 (23), 1317-1318
- Beggs CB, Avital EJ. A psychrometric model to assess the biological decay of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in aerosols. PeerJ. 2021. 9:e11024
- Beggs CB, Avital EJ. Upper-room ultraviolet air disinfection might help to reduce COVID-19 transmission in buildings. PeerJ. 2020. 8, e10196
- Zamboni P, Malagoni AM, Menegatti E, Ragazzi R, Tavoni V, Tessari M, Beggs CB. Central venous pressure estimation from ultrasound assessment of the jugular venous pulse. Plos one. 2020. 10, e0240057
- Beggs CB, Shepherd SJ, Cecconi P, Laganà MM. Predicting the Aqueductal Cerebrospinal Fluid Pulse: A Statistical Approach. Applied Sciences. 2019. 9 (10), 2131
- Beggs CB, Giaquinta A, Veroux M, De Marco E, Mociskyte D, Veroux P. Mid-term sustained relief from headaches after balloon angioplasty of the internal jugular veins in patients with multiple sclerosis. Plos one. 2018. 13 (1), e0191534
- Lees MJ, Beggs CB, … Hind k. Bone Density and Cross-sectional Geometry of the Proximal Femur Are Bilaterally Elevated in Elite Cricket Fast Bowlers. Journal of Clinical Densitometry. 2018. 21 (3), 399-405
- Laganà MM, Shepherd SJ, Cecconi P, Beggs CB. Intracranial volumetric changes govern cerebrospinal fluid flow in the Aqueduct of Sylvius in healthy adults. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 2017. 36, 84-92
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