👋 Hi, I'm Tony. I'm a data person who writes R code as a hobby. My specialty is applications of statistics in sports, mostly soccer.
- Sports analytics visualization gallery: A collection of visualizations (mostly soccer) that I've tweeted out.
- "Bundesliga tax" analysis cited in The Athletic, Tifo Football, ESPN, Grace Robertson, and more.
- 2021 Big Data Bowl (Big Data Bowl) team submission (finalist) | "Weighted Assessment of Defender Affectiveness (WADE)": A framework for quantifying NFL defensive back coverage and contest skills.
- I co-maintain
{worldfootballR}, an R package for extracting world football (soccer) data from several sites. - I wrote
{fotmob}, an R package for retrieving soccer data from Fotmob. - I wrote
{valorantr}, an R package for retrieving pro Valorant data from rib.gg. - I have contributed to
{ffscrapr}, an R API client for several fantasy football league platforms.
I'm currently working on making an unofficial API for GeeksWhoDrink, using python.
For more about what I've worked on and my background, check out my blog.