How to Make Graphs Like The Athletic in Python

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[@syscrusher]

Re the average distance, soccer pitches in the UK vary quite a bit. You could use the home team column to reference data for actual length per pitch.

[@McKayJohns]

Yeah I went pretty basic here, you could go get the pitch lengths for every shot and get a more accurate calculation for sure. Would have probably extended the tutorial by 30 min tho haha

[@user-po3vd7jq6l]

Guys, I would also recommend McKey courses. Very useful.

[@vardhan254]

is he mckay’s evil more intelligent twin

[@-BarathKumarS]

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[@tsaminamina_eheh]

Dope! Real challenge is to do it in Plotly to add another dimension of interactivity!!

[@Waldroid]

Thanks for this! Kept me engaged throughout the whole video

[@McKayJohns]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@bollin0802]

Very informative! Thanks

[@prathmesh5405]

Bro , thats super stuff...

[@genretypebeats4612]

Hi mCkay.. Honestly your videos are awesome

[@McKayJohns]

Thank you!

[@Carlos-wv4zk]

Good video! What monitor are you using? I noticed the frame rate is so smooth when you move your mouse

[@McKayJohns]

It's actually just my macbook screen haha and I'm just doing a screen recording

[@NihumDe]

thanks for the tut!
does fbref have info on shot location for players?

[@McKayJohns]

No but sites like sofascore, fotmob, and whoscored all do

[@MohamedIdris-xt7mz]

Cool Vid!, what website was the haaland stats used in this video scraped from?

[@McKayJohns]

Understat 👍

[@tomkmb4120]

Great video man - how were you able to get a full season set of data for a single player from understat? I'm not familiar with that site so just exploring it now but can only see game by game entries - is that information behind a paywall or do you compile it yourself from some sort of scraping protocol?

[@McKayJohns]

I used a Python package called Understat to scrape it. You could also loop over all matches and extract all of the shots that way

[@tomkmb4120]

@@McKayJohns ah cool thanks for confirming - do you have a video on that package/process?

[@amineberouaken]

Good video, but instead of calling the scatter function 5 times to plot the legend, you can call it just one time as follow:
x_legend = np.linspace(start=0.37, stop=.6, num=5)
y_legend = np.asarray([.53]*5)
sizes = np.linspace(start=100, stop=500, num=5)
ax1.scatter(x=x_legend,
y=y_legend,
s=sizes)

[@McKayJohns]

Yes that’s a good solution. For simplicity I ended up doing what I did

[@The_notorious_8]

Thank you very much mate, but I have a problem with "df" is not defined

[@McKayJohns]

Hm usually that means the code wasn’t ran did you run the line to import the data?

[@anshmehrotraxi-a7207]

I wanna get into cricket analytics would web scrapping cource pf yours would be helpful???? Or of football course

[@McKayJohns]

The web scraping course is great for learning how to build a web scraping pipeline while the football course focuses more on teaching Python and Football analytics

[@IntrovertedCoder]

Hi! Is there any PPP available on your course?

[@McKayJohns]

If you send me an email: [e-mail] we can work something out :)

[@bhavinho]

Is it possible to do this with data from the new season?

[@McKayJohns]

Yes I would just label it as shots through whatever match week you’re on

[@samthomas2056]

hi, does fbref have shot location data that i can use to create this chart? if not, where can i get data easily from

[@samthomas2056]

the player played in the mls last season

[@McKayJohns]

I got this data from Understat you can also use sofascore

[@DarekVinogradov]

how would i export it into a png file?

[@McKayJohns]

In the GitHub code there is a line of code at the very bottom that shows how to do it

[@anshmehrotraxi-a7207]

Bro would we learn web scraping in football cource of yours???

[@McKayJohns]

You'll learn how to scrape specific sites like fotmob, sofascore and fbref!

[@anshmehrotraxi-a7207]

So what's the other add on things that we will learn in your cource of web scrapping????​@@McKayJohns

[@gabriel1991]

Is there any way to get this data from other website than understat? I want to the same plot for other player that is not there.

[@McKayJohns]

You can scrape from other sites like sofascore or fotmob 👍

[@exmidland]

​@@McKayJohns course has a method that taught me to get data from Fotmob, it's very well explained. I think the x,y data on Fotmob is based differently though as some x values are greater than 100, unless I'm picking up an incorrect data item.

[@remy7663]

Your cose is so damn expensive bruh I'm just a college student wanting to learn more abt football data analytics.