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Welcome to the 18th issue of the Viz of the Week newsletter, where I'll be featuring a new visual each week and sharing the code behind it.
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I'm kind of in love with line charts at the moment.
This week I wanted to take a look at which goalkeepers in La Liga have been saving or conceding more goals than expected. Although this is not a perfect way to evaluate goalkeepers, it's still a useful exercise and one which – at least for La Liga – showed some surprising results.
Wow, right?
I would have never guessed for Jan Oblak to rank so low, I even thought that I was making a mistake. But no, those are his actual figures, at least according to Opta's model.
From Around the Grounds
Here are some of the cool things I saw from the community on Twitter this past week 😀
Estimated Impact by Edvin
A beautiful web application with a new metric called "Estimated Impact".
This is amazing analytical work and has some beautiful visuals too!
After two months of work, I'm excited to share a new player metric with you!
— Edvin (@Edvin_TH) October 7, 2022
Estimated Impact is an all-in-one player metric that uses multiple components to estimate a player's true impact and effectiveness.
Explore the metric with this web app:https://t.co/zsqrjvc8ej pic.twitter.com/UTQZk2oAlA
Haaland: Data Viz Special by The Analyst
Great visual presentation of how Haaland is just a man from a different planet.
Seems that the visuals are all made in Javascript's D3. Learning D3 is definitely on my bucket list.
𝐄𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐚𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐳 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 📈
— The Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) October 10, 2022
Erling Haaland's already scored 20 goals for Manchester City, but what else do you need to know about his record-breaking start to life at #MCFC?
Our data viz king @petermckeever's done all the work for you. ⬇️
The code
I hope you enjoyed today's post. As always, you're welcome to take a look at my code and reproduce the visual.
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