INTRODUCTION AND AIM

The main aim of this data visulaization project is to look at how Lionel Messi eveolved as a player in terms of taking shots and scoring goals under different managers during his career at Barcelona.

STEPS INVOLVED

1. Data for the initial years were gathered using StatsBomb's API and the data is available in their GitHub repository.
2. Data for the 2014 - 2021 was gathered from Understat through web scraping.
3. Once all the data was collected, they were seperated out into different files for different managers and later the visualization and analysis of the data was done.

DETAILED EXPLANATION

The detailed explanation for this project is in a Twitter thread which I have written where I have explained how Messi eveolved in terms of taking shots and scoring goals under different managers in a chronological order.

LINK : https://twitter.com/Abhilashprakash/status/1450792367016005644

MORE INFO

Managers Lionel Messi played under at Barcelona in chronological order :

1. Frank Rijkaard
2. Pep Guardiola
3. Tito Vilanova
4. Tata Martino
5. Luis Enrique
6. Ernesto Valverde
7. Quique Setien
8. Ronald Koeman

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Have to thank both StatsBomb and Understat for providing the data and mplsoccer library for visualizing.

THE VISUALIZATION