I apologize in advance if my question sounds too basic to be worthy of anyone's time, but statistics are not part of my curriculum.
I am developing a proof of concept of a web application modeling the contribution of individual soccer player with respect to the different teams they've played with throughout their career. In particular, I am looking into a way of ranking both individuals and groups of players as follows::
- teammates relative strength: the best/worst combinations of players when playing in the same team in the same matches;
- opponents relative strength: the best/worst combinations of players when playing in opposite teams in the same matches, i.e. which tuples of teammates are the best/worst against which;
I must admit I don't quite know how to approach the problem (as I said I have no formal education in statistics or data science). I would be very grateful if anyone could give me some directions. How should I frame this particular problem and what resources in statistics or machine learning (if indeed this is a task fit for machine learning, perhaps I am mistaken on this) would be appropriate to tackle it?
I am eager to learn, so both practical examples or theoretical references (book chapters, online articles, etc) would be very welcome.
Thanks in advance!
