Supercharge Your Football Betting Stats eBook (3rd Edition)

This book was originally released in the August of 2019 with the aim of helping readers build upon their football stats knowledge and open up a new world of statistical based thinking in the process. This was achieved in two parts, initially through the building of a professional football stats database alongside the learning of the programming skills required to update it automatically. The second part was through the learning of SQL, a powerful language used to query database systems quickly and efficiently and deliver results from the data contained within.

The 2nd edition was released in April of 2020 and included two new chapters delving into areas such as automatically scraping the web for up to date football results and making use of automation techniques for various tasks including importing of data and reporting of various data points on a schedule.

This 3rd edition, released in January of 2023, takes the knowledge delivered by the initial 2 versions of the book further by incorporating in-game events data into the database and showing how this new data can form the basis for many new stats being developed. These new stats can include those which are based upon goal times such as teams more likely to score late goals, average goal times and whether home teams are more likely to score first amongst many other similar stats!

It would be fair to say these are all, in their own right, large and complex areas of work, but with this text I take readers through plenty of working examples whilst providing plenty of detailed descriptions and screenshots of the concepts being covered along the way through all three editions.