Hudl Performance Insights 2025: Research Stage

Are defensive contributions poorly captured by traditional metrics? In this session, Lorenzo Cascioli and Allen Wang investigate how cover shadows can be used as a solution to this challenge.

In this presentation, Conor Malone combines event data with physical metrics to quantify the impact of workload on shot performance in elite football.

Minimizing risk from player transfers is a key challenge in football recruitment. In this session, Minho Lee proposes a strategy to better predict player-team suitability.

Watch Richard McIntosh and Tobias Beckmann compare competitive contexts to see to what extent performance can be explained by athleticism – and how this can inform recruitment strategies.

How do you defend against long throws? Sebastian Greenhalgh and Dan Anghel address this topical question using data-driven principles in their Research Stage presentation.

Robert Bajons and Tobias Harringer take to the Research Stage to analyse Hudl Statsbomb’s industry-leading expected goals model.

Does the new manager bounce actually exist? Sean Hooker questions this received wisdom through the lens of team identity, analysing how a manager’s tactical style and its convergence influence short-term performance shifts.

Watch Tahmeed Tureen and Irena Chen’s Research Stage presentation on scouting goalscorers using player-adjusted hierarchical statistical methods.

In this session, Davide Danesi tries to decipher whether a player is great or if they are just in a great system, using a method to isolate a player’s intrinsic, context-neutral ‘signature’.

Ryan Groom presents on how to use qualitative data for identifying and appointing talent both on and off the pitch.