Jake Kemp

Sport Scientist

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Remembering Christian Atsu on his birthday. 🙏

We miss you, Christian. 🖤🤍

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@paulboanas Thanks Paul. It takes a single source for input but it wouldn’t be too hard to give the user options to select here, then engineer whatever dataset they choose into the front-end visuals.

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An early build of a bespoke web app to plot and visualise football event data. The tool supplements match analysis across team, player and fixture levels.

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This was an early version of a custom built recruitment app for a football club. This tool employs machine learning analysis to rank, profile and identify potential transfer targets and similar players across global leagues.

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In 2020/21 Dani Olmo and Yusuf Yazici played 23 consecutive games with a maximum of 4 days between each fixture.

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The total number of congested fixtures per season has been increasing across Europe's Big 5 leagues.

A a game is deemed congested if it is played within 4 days of the previous fixture.

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In the 2012/13 season Oscar played 62 congested games.

Chelsea won the Europa League, Super Cup, Club World Cup and reached the semi-finals of both the League and FA Cups with several members of the squad having high congestion. Oscar also won the Confederations Cup with Brazil.

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@Jaccovanolst Yes, I have some Premier League data to check if the demands have changed. I also want to have a look at fixture scheduling and see if the players have more congested periods now.

External stressors will surely play a part too due to the impact on recovery.

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Hamstring injuries have been increasing over the last ten seasons for teams competing in Europe's Big 5 leagues.

Last season's total of 185 recorded injuries is an 80% increase on the total from the 2012/13 season (103).

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@Jaccovanolst I had a look at the data on this Jacco and it seems my first thoughts about the number of games were too simplistic.

https://t.co/1TCbVmkkZd

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The total number of games per season for international players in Europe's Big 5 leagues has remained stable over the last 10 seasons.

The increased rate of hamstring injuries can't simply be attributed to more games.

Increasing match demands? More fixture congestion?

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@Jaccovanolst Yeah that was my initial thought, Declan Rice recently spoke about playing 68 games last year! I’d be interested to see if/how the physical demands of the game have changed but don’t have the data to do that across the leagues unfortunately.

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The total number of games per season for international players in Europe's Big 5 leagues has remained stable over the last 10 seasons.

The increased rate of hamstring injuries can't simply be attributed to more games.

Increasing match demands? More fixture congestion?

[Jake Kemp @jakekemp]

Hamstring injuries have been increasing over the last ten seasons for teams competing in Europe's Big 5 leagues.

Last season's total of 185 recorded injuries is an 80% increase on the total from the 2012/13 season (103).

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@LuongoCM Unfortunately the mechanism isn’t included in the dataset

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Data from players competing in Europe's top five leagues since 2012 shows U20 players miss more games than older players when they suffer a hamstring injury.

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Data from players involved in the Big 5 leagues since the 2018/19 season shows the time-loss impact of sustaining an injury is greater for young players.

On average, a 20 year old player will miss two more games when injured than a 30 year old professional.

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Hamstring injuries have been the most common cause for absences across the Big 5 leagues, accounting for over 14% of all injuries.

This season, hamstring injuries have typically left players out for 26 days and missing 4 games.

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Teams in the #Bundesliga have had the highest injury toll this season.

#SerieA #PremierLeague #Ligue1 #LaLiga

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Liverpool and Juventus have had the highest injury burden across Europe's Big 5 this season, their players have missed a combined total of 54 games as a result of injury.

#LFC #Juve