Football - The beautiful game

Enough has been said about Manchester United's 2021/22 season, from scathing articles about the underwhelming Ralf Rangnick tenure to the training ground bust-ups between the players. We can all agree that this was probably United's worst season in a very long time, and this is considering the fact that we all saw the meltdown that came in Jose's final season, Moyes just not being good enough to carry out a job of this scale, and Louis Van Gaal's football that put almost everyone to sleep. Add to this the fanfare that surrounded the Red Devils at the beginning of the season, having just finished second in the league to which they added Jadon Sancho, Raphael Varane, and Cristiano Ronaldo, and it becomes evident just how bad the season had to go to be called the worst season of the Premier League era. It still happened, and after all the disappointments, there might just be light at the end of the tunnel for the Old Trafford faithful. There has been a big overhaul at the ...

When I wrote an article last year titled ' Using Machine Learning To Find A Jules Koundé Alternative for Tottenham ', the idea of creating an app that allows anyone to find player alternatives had already been sowed in my mind. It was then nurtured by the impending overhaul at Manchester United and has finally blossomed as the transfer window now comes around the corner. I finally got around to making the app, which you can now find on my Twitter profile  here . In this article, I will take you through the idea, the execution, and the issues I faced while building the web app. My biggest project is finally here! I made an app that employs Machine Learning to group and find players with similar profiles. https://t.co/m4yhib1XvD pic.twitter.com/P9E4BSmVw3 — Anuraag Kulkarni (@Anuraag027) May 19, 2022 The Idea So as I stated earlier, the idea came from a previous article. The thought in my mind was simple - is there a way I can tell which players are similar by looking at their ...