Soccer Analytics for Beginners: An R Tutorial with EURO 2020 Data - Web Scraping & Radar Plots

Bill K from SweepSportsAnalytics.com presents 11 Steps Soccer Analytics for Beginners: An R Tutorial with EURO 2020 Data - Web Scraping & Radar Plots.

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We have received a few requests from sports analytics enthusiasts through our Instagram and Facebook pages for guides. Here is the video that supplements the written guide on our website. It covers (a) scraping data from fbref.com, (b) manipulating the data for analysis, (c) creating radar plots.

Step 1: Download R Studio
Step 2: Install packages
Step 3: Load libraries
Step 4: Read fbref.com URLs
Step 5: Read a single pair of tables for a single game
Step 6: Read all tables for all games
Step 7: Create summary data frame
Step 8: Select players
Step 9: Create the radar plots
Step 10: Make the graph presentable
Step 11: Interpret the graph


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