The Technical Journey to Define the True Value of a Football Goal • Torben Hoffmann • GOTO 2024

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Torben Hoffmann - Erlang/Elixir Aficionado with a Passion for Football @TorbenHoffmann RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/torbenhoffmann https://twitter.com/LeHoff https://github.com/lehoff ABSTRACT A programmer, a mathematician, and a football nerd walk into a bar hoping to get the answer to one specific, big, and much-considered question. What is the true value of a goal in football? This is the story of how a nerd sharing all three passions spent years dancing around this problem until his curiosity finally paid off and his love of technology delivered the ultimate answer. This talk has it all - maths, coding, web scraping, algorithms, statistics...and the answer to the biggest question of them all: Who is the most valuable of all goal scorers - Ronaldo or Messi? [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:08 Football means a lot 02:32 October 1989 05:47 Tennis 11:46 Football 19:21 Bummer time 26:25 Autumn 2023 28:45 Spring 2024 29:52 Late summer 2024 37:32 Lukaku at Everton 2016/17 40:21 Messi vs Ronaldo 42:20 Learnings 44:27 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2024/sessions/3152 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Chris Anderson & David Sally • The Numbers Game • https://amzn.to/4g3HjX3 Nick Murray • The Game of Numbers • https://amzn.to/4gdThgN Aditya Y. Bhargava • Grokking Algorithms • https://amzn.to/3VstZRr Jay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms • https://amzn.to/3OzvJGn Eric Zweig • It's a Numbers Game! Football • https://amzn.to/3VAiklO https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #RonaldovsMessi #Ronaldo #Messi #Lukaku #ValueOfAGoal #ChampagneRatio #Football #Soccer #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #Maths #Coding #WebScraping #Algorithms #Statistics #SportsStatistics #Haskell #TorbenHoffmann CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1