Certifications / Sports Analytics & Data / Level 1
Foundations of Player Tracking & Scouting Statistics
Learn to read the numbers behind modern recruitment. What tracking data measures, what expected-goals models claim, and which scouting metrics survive scrutiny.
- Total content
- 12h
- Modules
- 4
- Lessons
- 20
- Language
- EN
Total content
Modules
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Sports Analytics & Data
$149one-time
This certification includes
12 hours of video lessons
Sample datasets and worked examples
Module quizzes with instant scoring
Digital badge on completion
Verifiable certificate with unique ID
14-day refund if you have not completed the final module quiz.
What you'll learn
- Distinguish event data from tracking data and know the uses of each
- Interpret an expected-goals figure without over-claiming it
- Read a radar, a shot map and a possession-value chart critically
- Pick scouting metrics that suit the position being assessed
- Spot sample-size problems in a player comparison
- Summarise a data-led scouting view in plain language
Curriculum
4 modules · 20 lessons · 12 hours
- Event data, ball by ball12 min
- Tracking data and what it adds15 min
- Providers and their differences12 min
- Where the data is wrong14 min
- Module 1 quiz10 questions
How you're assessed
Module quizzes
Ten multiple-choice questions at the end of each module, scored instantly. 70% to pass, unlimited retakes.
Certificate issued
Pass every module quiz and your certificate and digital badge are generated immediately, with a unique ID and a public verification page.
Who this is for
Scouts and coaches meeting analytics for the first time
Journalists and analysts who need to read models critically
Graduates targeting club recruitment roles
Anyone planning to continue to the Level 2 Analytics certification
Requirements
No coding is required at this level and no statistics beyond averages and percentages is assumed. Level 2 is where Python, R and SQL begin.
Tools covered
- StatsBomb
- Opta
- Wyscout
- Excel