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The official England squad house price mashup

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I've found myself alternately cheering and shouting at the TV recently. England's progress through the group stages of the World Cup in Russia has reflected the highs and lows of being a football fan; from dubious penalty decisions and the drama of Kane's last-gasp goal in our opening game to a glorious goal-fest against Panama and subsequent struggles against Belgium.

During these games, pundits have treated me to all sorts of stats and calculations, such as shots on target, pass completion rate, and distance covered. But these just represent the tip of an enormous data-iceberg. In the last decade, football has been transformed through the use of data.

Officials consider who should be Man of the Match. Talent scouts and agents evaluate whose contributions are worth the most. Gareth Southgate weighs-up whether to play Henderson or Dier. Rest assured, they use data to help make all these decisions.

Though raw data has a value in its own right, it's a lot more useful, valuable, and fun when it's refined, processed, and combined with other data. So, in the spirit of a data mashup, I wondered if I could rank our entire England football squad using HM Land Registry price paid data.

How I ranked the England squad

Let's imagine our players are locations, based on their names. So, Jordan Pickford becomes Pickford Avenue in Bolton, for example.

I took the relevant postcode sector, "BL3 1", for example, and looked up a year-to-date average for sales.

I repeated this process for all the players (and the manager) and then ordered by value.

As this query uses current year-to-date information, their rankings will vary over time; just like player performances.

The official England squad house price mashup

  1. Harry Maguire
    Maguire Street, London SE1 2NQ
    Average house price: £1,540,055
  2. Gary Cahill
    Cahill Street, Islington EC1Y 8PH
    Average house price: £484,833
  3. Dele Alli
    Dalley Way in Liss GU33 7HD
    Average house price: £481,413
  4. John Stones
    Stones Road, Epsom KT17 1DF
    Average house price: £461,471
  5. Fabian Delph
    The Delph, Reading RG6 3AN
    Average house price: £349,239
  6. Kyle Walker
    Walker Terrace, Plymouth PL1 3BN
    Average house price: £304,343
  7. Gareth Southgate
    Southgate Street, Bath BA1 1AQ
    Average house price: £281,217
  8. Raheem Sterling
    Sterling Road, Sittingbourne ME10 1SH
    Average house price: £277,874
  9. Jordan Henderson
    Henderson Road, Hanham, Bristol BS15 3AJ
    Average house price: £277,274
  10. Marcus Rashford
    Marcus Close, Haverhill, St Edmundsbury CB9 0NT
    Average house price: £276,354
  11. Trent Alexander-Arnold
    Trent Road, Luton LU3 1TF
    Average house price: £271,706
  12. Nick Pope
    Pope Street, Maidstone ME16 8LG
    Average house price: £253,795
  13. Danny Rose
    Rose Road, Bristol BS5 8EX
    Average house price: £246,129
  14. Jesse Lingard
    Lingard Road, Sutton Coldfield B75 7EA
    Average house price: £217,402
  15. Harry Kane
    Kane Close, Llanishen, Cardiff CF14 5LG
    Average house price: £213,030
  16. Jack Butland
    Butland Road, Corby NN18 8FN
    Average house price: £200,567
  17. Ruben Loftus-Cheek
    Loftus Hill, Sedbergh, Cumbria LA10 5SQ
    Average house price: £197,167
  18. Ashley Young
    Young Drive, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE13 7NW
    Average house price: £195,392
  19. Danny Welbeck
    Welbeck Avenue, Leicester LE4 0ED
    Average house price: £157,792
  20. Jamie Vardy
    Vardy Terrace, Sunderland DH4 4LX
    Average house price: £147,341
  21. Jordan Pickford
    Pickford Avenue, Little Lever, Bolton BL3 1PN
    Average house price: £137,414
  22. Phil Jones
    Jones Street, Pontypridd CF37 4EW
    Average house price: £122,999
  23. Kieran Trippier
    Trippier Road, Eccles, Manchester M30 7PT
    Average house price: £117,850
  24. Eric Dier
    Eric Street, Bradford BD21 3LR
    Average house price: £99,375

Think you can do better?

The leaderboard above is just for fun, but if you want to play with HM Land Registry data, you could start by creating your own free price paid reports.

If you're serious about mashing up large sets of data, you should explore the Geovation programme. You could get funding and support to create apps that use geospatial data from HM Land Registry and Ordnance Survey.

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