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December 18, 2018 17:57
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Scripts for downloading and visualising data from clubelo.com showing José Mourinho’s third season problem. A hand-finished version of this chart appears in this Financial Times story: https://www.ft.com/content/56acdd82-02d2-11e9-99df-6183d3002ee1
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needs(tidyverse, magrittr, scales) | |
jose.porto <- read_csv("http://api.clubelo.com/porto") | |
jose.chelsea <- read_csv("http://api.clubelo.com/chelsea") | |
jose.inter <- read_csv("http://api.clubelo.com/inter") | |
jose.real <- read_csv("http://api.clubelo.com/realmadrid") | |
jose.mufc <- read_csv("http://api.clubelo.com/manunited") | |
jose.all <- bind_rows( | |
jose.porto %>% filter(From >= as.Date("2002-01-22") & To <= as.Date("2004-06-30")), | |
jose.chelsea %>% | |
filter( | |
(From >= as.Date("2004-07-01") & To <= as.Date("2007-09-19")) | |
), | |
jose.chelsea %>% | |
filter( | |
(From >= as.Date("2013-07-01") & To <= as.Date("2015-12-17")) | |
) %>% mutate(Club = "Chelsea 2"), | |
jose.inter %>% filter(From >= as.Date("2008-07-01") & To <= as.Date("2010-06-30")), | |
jose.real %>% filter(From >= as.Date("2010-07-01") & To <= as.Date("2013-06-30")), | |
jose.mufc %>% filter(From >= as.Date("2016-07-01") & To <= as.Date("2018-12-18")) | |
) | |
jose.labels <- jose.all %>% | |
group_by(Club) %>% | |
top_n(1, Elo) | |
ggplot(jose.all, aes(To, Elo, group=Club, color=Club)) + | |
theme_minimal() + | |
geom_line() + | |
geom_text(data=jose.labels, aes(y = Elo+10, label=Club)) + | |
scale_color_discrete(guide=F) + | |
scale_y_continuous(position = "right") + | |
scale_x_date(date_breaks="2 years", date_labels="%Y") + | |
labs(x = "", y = "", subtitle = "Team performance level (Elo rating)", title = "Mourinho’s recent stints have been marked by steep declines in performance after promising starts") |
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