Blog Post 8: Reflection

Throughout this project, I have learned many new things about myself, soccer, and analytics.

Unfortunately, however, to learn many of these new things, despite many things going well, there were some things that did not go that well, or as I had originally planned. I had the goal of rating every position, and doing so during a period of five matchweeks. Unfortunately, I was not able to meet this goal because of the time creating each rating consumed. The process of choosing a player of the week took around three hours, with the process of rating each player taking around another two, making a total of about five hours, which was a very large amount of time to spend on this while trying to balance many other tasks, both in and out of school. Although I did not meet the original goal I set, I still feel what I achieved was beneficial. I was still able to pick up the skill of learning how to rate players, which would make rating any other players much easier. So, although I did not complete my goal, I learned how I would be able to and know I can if I want to in the future. Also, on a more positive note, this taught me that everything can be analyzed. I broke down how soccer players performed using statistics, which showed me that I can analyze things in whatever field I choose, using whatever analysis strategy I choose, which will surely become beneficial for me in my future.