modern-football

Visualisations of football statistics from the top 5 European leagues since the 1990s

This repository scrapes and visualises player statistics since the 1992/93 season across the top 5 European leagues from FBRef, starting from the earliest season in which both non-penalty goals and assists were recorded in that league. Includes stats for 16,053 players over 31 seasons of football.

Reddit: /u/Jinshanling • Twitter: @tigran_football

Scripts

• scraping.R - Collecting FBRef data from seasons 1992/93 to 2023/24 and exporting as datasets
• 1992_2023 summed.R - Analysis of 1992/93 to 2023/24 seasons
• 2017_2013 summed.R - Analysis of 2017/18 to 2023/24 seasons (including advanced statistics)
• 2023_24 season.R - Analysis of 2023/24 season

Visualisations

You can view all my visualisations by clicking here.

• Access the interactive version of this graph here.