Chelsea strikers before Lukaku
Problem Statement It is the summer of 2018. The head scout of your club (one of the biggest in the Premier League) wants to scout for a particular position from anywhere in the top 5 leagues using Wyscout data. Forward, Chelsea He is interested in hearing about a variety of methods for scouting players, so he asks you to try out one of the methods from the course or even one of your own. You should primarily use the Wyscout data but can also use Transfermarkt to find the prices of players in summer 2018. You should do the following steps: 1, Implement one of the methods (plus/minus, percentiles, Markov chain, possession chains, or one of your own) on the data. Decide on a suitable metric for ranking players and make a top-10 list of players in your position for the whole league. Write a simple non-technical text (half a page) explaining your metric to the scout and what assumptions it makes. Provide a separate runnable piece of code (preferably in Python) which when put in ...
