UnravelSports is a Sports Data Analytics Research & Engineering Consultancy run by Joris Bekkers.

I have years of industry experience conducting football analytics research, developing state-of-the-art analytics models, designing end-user centered custom and novel data visualizations, and building & integrating data analytics into day-to-day work flows at club and federation since 2017.

Below is an overview of some of my public work including football analytics research, a proof-of-concept multi-platform mobile/tablet app, data visualizations and interviews.

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Blogs

• Jun 30, 2025

  🌀 EFPI: Elastic Formation and Position Identification

• Jun 7, 2025

  🎙️ GraphEPV at PyData London 2025

• May 1, 2025

  🔬 Common Data Format (CDF) — a Standardized Format for Match-Data in Football (Soccer)

• Dec 12, 2024

  🔬 An Intuitive Measure for Pressing

• Aug 24, 2024

  🌀 pip install unravelsports

• Nov 1, 2023

  📱 GroundhopMap.com

• Apr 6, 2023

  🔬 Rendering Football Data in 3D with Rust and Bevy

• Mar 27, 2023

  🎙 The Athletic Interview: SSAC 2023 Research Paper on Counterattacks

• Mar 2, 2023

  🔬 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Research Paper Competition 2023

• Jul 11, 2022

  🔬 Designing a Player ID Matching System

• Mar 6, 2022

  📱 Interactive Digital Tactics Board

• Sep 1, 2021

  🎙 Industria Podcast: Using data analytics in professional football

• Mar 14, 2021

  📱 Real Time Pitch Control Multi-Platform App

• Oct 19, 2020

  🔬 Expected UEFA Coefficient Country Rank Model

• Jul 29, 2020

  🎙 VICE Interview: My Journey into Football Analytics

• Apr 6, 2020

  💻 Custom Visualizations in R with ggplot

• Jul 9, 2019

  💻 FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 Tracking Data Tool

• Jul 10, 2017

  🔬 Pass Maps 2.0

• Jan 4, 2017

  🔬 Expected Pass Model

• Dec 1, 2016

  🔬 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Research Paper Competition 2017