The season is still young, but a 1st look at off. & def. efficiency shows that Fรผchse are doing very well in attack. Flensburg have the best defence. Eisenach is better than average in attack, but not in defence. This was even clearer last season. Reasons in the link above. ๐
@HBSstatz Yeah, definitely there is so much to do. I finally finished my xG model a few weeks ago based on exact shot positions from Kinexon data (and manually added missing data) and will publish an article on it next week.
@HBSstatz Very interesting stuff! Have you done any research whether xP are actually as predictive as in football? Because my theory is that it isn't. As luck is much less a factor in handball because of the many goals that are scored my guess is that finishing better than expected...
Sporting CP is the positive surprise of the Machineseeker EHF Champions League season. They are great offensively and even better defensively, yet still incredibly young.
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The field all-time scoring list is lead by right backs. The all-time per game scoring list is absolutely dominated by left backs. So is the real "Kรถnigsposition", the king's position rather right back than left back?
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Left Back is often called the "Kรถnigsposition", the king position in handball. But is that right? I dug deep into the numbers (German):
https://t.co/FOPL10l1lu
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โ๏ธ "No other position can influence the game as much as the goalkeepers" - @handballytics
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The number of saves was the least meaningful goalkeeper statistic to predict the result of the game last @ehfcl Women, net save percentage, which counts only saves that lead to possession for the defending team, was the most meaningful.
โก๏ธMore: https://t.co/t9ZPwdp0Bz
In the first article for @ehfcl this season I took a look at the goalkeepers for Brest and Ludwigsburg who face in this week's #motw as they use a different approach on how they split the time between their keepers: https://t.co/t9ZPwdp0Bz
On the menโs side of #Olympics#Paris2024 Denmark is clearly the dominating team. Their offence seems just unstoppable. If anything, it's their defence that offers Germany chances in the final. Germany themselves have good numbers in both attack and defence.
The two best teams of the women's #Handball#Olympics tournament are also in the final. Hosts France impressed with by far the best offence according to the raw and adjusted data. Their opponents in the final, Norway, clearly have the best defence.
For the menโs competition Denmark clearly has the best numbers. They dominate offensively once again. Defensively they are good as well, however, adjusting their numbers to the strength of their opponents and filtering out garbage time their defense drops from first to the sixth.