Syzygy Analytics
- Football analytics with a strong focus towards team performance ratings
- Betting Previews
- Team Performance Reviews
recent posts
- Squad value comparisons using Transfermarkt.com
- Premier League thoughts on all 20 teams
- Are some grounds fortresses? Do some teams prefer to play away?
- Points Projections for 8 different leagues during the 2025 November International Break
- More notes on game state and xG (Understat.com)
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Month: August 2025
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2 weeks in and the competitiveness of the Premier League is at an all time high. There have been some surprising performances by teams (Arsenal vs. Manchester United and Newcastle vs. Liverpool stand out) so far this season which results in some mixed-up performance ratings for each team’s first 2 games (see the light grey…
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Charlotte vs. New York Red Bulls With Agyemang sold and Biel injured, I have NYRBs as a good bet not to lose here. Charlotte FC is on a 6 game win streak but I think it’s sure to end soon and hopefully this is the game. Seattle Sounders vs. Sporting Kansas City Showing as a…
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The MLS season begins to approach the ‘run-in’ (8 full gameweeks left) and the conferences are close and exciting. It looks possible the top of each conference will become even tighter as some of the teams that are currently adrift have strong underlying performances. The ‘Next lineup strength column’ is used for my betting predictions…
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In this series of articles, I am going to be analysis the effects of game-state in football. I am going to consider In this first part I am looking at how goal difference is affected by game state. Introduction I suspect game state complicates our goal of accurately assessing a team’s performance. We need to…