As you may have noticed, I haven’t written anything in months. There’s two reasons for this, one being of course that the Swedish football season I’ve primarily focused on ended in November, but it’s also because I’ve taken on a new job. Working full time for the first time in my life has simply left me with little time to do any writing. (Yes, I did use the word time three times in that short sentence.)

But now, having settled in at the new job I’m anxious to get back to writing again. There’s one thing though: as I now work with compiling odds on Swedish football I wouldn’t feel comfortable publishing football analytics about Allsvenskan, telling you which teams are underrated and who’ll win the league title. And knowing I set the odds, and potentially profit from your mistakes, why would you believe anything I said?

So this blog will take on a slightly new focus: gambling. I originally set up the blog intending to write about this topic as well as football analytics, using maths, statistics, probability and psychology to discuss interesting things related to gambling, but the football part soon took over completely.

As I’ve published my football work on the blog I’ve now and then gotten some questions about programming, so I’ve taken the decision to include Python code whenever applicable. Learning to code has made a huge difference for me both in my gambling and football analytics endeavours, and though the blog won’t turn into a Python tutorial per se, if any of you who are new to programming should learn a new thing or two through my writing, I’d be glad.

I’m still hoping to write the occasional football analytics piece though, and if I do it’ll likely be for StrataBet, using their data as I did when I had a look at headers in Allsvenskan and Norway’s Tippeligaen.

That’s it for now, but I already have a new post in the works, coming up very shortly!