Ask HN: Best statistical resources

Don't know about soccer, but both of Andrew Gelman's books are bibles for me (economics). Data Analysis Using Regression and Hierarchical/Multilevel Modeling[1] and Bayesian Data Analysis[2]. He uses R. They're approachable, but get into some real hardcore stats.

[1] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/arm/ [2] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/

There were some suggestions in these previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8491378

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8348769

I recall a recent discussion where people made some book recommendations, but unfortunately, I can't find it.

That's fine. Really appreciate the links - I'll go through them.

I have yet to go through it, but there is OnlineStatBook: http://onlinestatbook.com/index.html

Chapter 1: http://onlinestatbook.com/2/introduction/introduction.html

see the post on the world cup and stats/ML/NN on sportsandillumination.com