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How to Document a Reproducible Football Chart
Record the minimum information another analyst needs to rebuild a football chart: question, source, period, population, metrics, units and configuration.
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The FBPlot Blog
Learn the strategies to create stunning football visualizations, understand advanced metrics, and turn your data into compelling stories
GeneralSmall Samples in Football Analytics: Minutes, Matches and Uncertainty
Handle early-season and low-minute football data with explicit exposure rules, sensitivity checks and cautious language.
8/16/20265 min readRead more
GeneralCommon Football Data Visualization Mistakes and How to Audit Them
Audit football charts for mismatched questions, hidden populations, mixed units, unstable samples, overloaded encodings and unreadable exports.
8/15/20265 min readRead more
GeneralHow to Turn a Scouting Finding Into a Report-Ready Chart
Translate one scouting observation into a chart whose population, metrics, claim and caption support a specific report decision.
8/14/20265 min readRead more
GeneralA Weekly Football Data Graphic Workflow for Journalists
Produce a consistent weekly football graphic by freezing the question, configuration and review process while documenting every data refresh.
8/13/20265 min readRead more
GeneralProgressive Carries and Progressive Passes Without Conflation
Compare two channels of ball progression while preserving current metric definitions, role, opportunity, unit and population context.
8/12/20265 min readRead more
GeneralExpected Goals in a Football Chart: Totals, Rates and Context
Choose an expected-goals chart from the question: accumulated xG, xG per 90, shot context or a relationship with another metric.
8/11/20265 min readRead more
GeneralFrom the Metrics Glossary to a Publishable Football Chart
Turn a football metric definition into a chart by preserving its unit, period, population, denominator and communication purpose.
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GeneralHow to Annotate a Football Chart Without Changing the Evidence
Add headlines, callouts and editorial context while preserving an untouched native chart and a record of every annotation.
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GeneralFootball Chart Aspect Ratios for Every Publishing Job
Choose among FBPlot's verified 4:5, 1:1, 9:16 and 16:9 chart formats from the communication constraint rather than from a platform guess.
8/8/20265 min readRead more
GeneralFootball Chart Labels That Survive Mobile Screens
Make football chart titles, axes, player names, values and methodology readable at the size where the audience will actually see them.
8/7/20265 min readRead more
GeneralHow Many Metrics Should a Football Radar Chart Use?
Choose a readable number of radar axes by testing role coverage, redundancy, label space and export size instead of following a universal number.
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GeneralComposite Axes in Football Scatter Plots
Combine multiple football metrics on a scatter axis without hiding components, units, direction or weighting.
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GeneralHow to Choose Football Metrics for a Player Role
Select football metrics from role responsibilities instead of copying a universal position template or filling every available radar axis.
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GeneralFootball Rankings Without Misleading Bar Charts
Publish football rankings with explicit eligibility, sorting, units, labels and sample context instead of letting bar length imply more than the data.
8/3/20265 min readRead more
GeneralFootball Swarm Plots: Distributions, Density and Outliers
Use football swarm plots to see distributions, clusters, gaps and highlighted players that a rank table can hide.
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GeneralHow to Compare Football Players Across Leagues Without Hiding Context
Compare players across competitions while keeping league, role, sample and population effects visible instead of collapsing them into one ranking.
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GeneralA Reproducible Football Scouting Shortlist Workflow
Build a football scouting shortlist from explicit filters, role evidence and reviewable charts instead of an unexplained ranking.
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GeneralFootball Percentiles Explained for Scouting
Learn what a football percentile says, why the comparison population matters and how to connect rank with the underlying value and distribution.
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GeneralHow to Build a Fair Football Player Comparison
Compare football players without mixing roles, minutes, periods or populations. Use a five-part comparison contract before choosing a chart.
7/29/20265 min readRead more
GeneralHow to Choose the Right Chart for a Football Analysis Question
Choose between pizza, player bar, scatter, bubble and swarm charts by defining the relationship your football analysis must show—not by choosing a visual style first.
7/28/20267 min readRead more
GeneralHow to Read a Football Player Bar Chart Without Losing Context
Learn how to read a football player bar chart by separating the metric value from its percentile, defining the comparison group, and checking period, minutes, units, and metric direction before drawing a conclusion.
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GeneralPer 90 Metrics in Football: When Normalization Helps and When It Misleads
Learn what a football per-90 rate measures, how to calculate it, when it makes player comparisons fairer, and why minutes, role, period and population still matter after normalization.
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GeneralHow to create a football scatter plot
FBPlot makes it easy to build scatter plots that are both analytical and publishable. In a few steps—Select Data → Customise → Appearance → Export—you can compare players across two performance dimensions while adding a third layer of insight through bubble size. The standout capability is flexibility: you can assign multiple metrics to each axis (FBPlot sums them to create a single X and Y value), which means you can define your own composite measures like Goal Impact or Chance Creation without spreadsheets. Then, you can scale bubble radius by any metric (Key Passes, xA, Minutes, Progressive Carries) to reveal context and separate true outliers from statistical noise. Finally, the Appearance controls let you style the chart for different audiences—clean and restrained for scouting reports, contextual and eye-catching for media—so every scatter plot can match the brand and format of the person using it.
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FeaturedGeneralAligning Radar Charts with Your Identity
Explore seven historical FBPlot radar palette exports using the same Kylian Mbappé profile, with practical guidance on brand fit, contrast and publishing context.
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GeneralThe Complete Guide to Radar Charts in Football Analysis
Learn how to build and read football radar charts using explicit comparison groups, percentiles, units, samples and a compact set of role-relevant metrics.
11/14/20257 min readRead more
GeneralUnderstanding Advanced Football Metrics: A Beginner's Guide
Learn how to interpret football metrics in context: check units and sample, compare similar roles, combine complementary signals, and use the FBPlot Metrics Glossary for canonical definitions.
11/14/20256 min readRead more
GeneralIntroducing FBPlot
The original introduction to FBPlot and its football visualization workflow.
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