This project explores fan ratings of players from their (and my) favorite football team, Arsenal Football Club. The data comes from Arseblog.com [1], an award-winning blog that focuses on Arsenal and has a massive reach (read about the dataset). Some of the things these fan ratings can be used for include:
- understanding how fans view individual players.
- studying how fan perceptions change over time.
- comparing fan perceptions of performance vs. other evaluation criteria and advanced metrics.
Through the blog entries below, this project examines these ideas and more from both the individual player and team perspectives.
Notes
[1] I am deeply grateful to Andrew Mangan and the rest of the Arseblog.com team for allowing me to use this data. You can support their work at patreon.com/arseblog.