#95 Power BI dashboard Messi Goals Tracker with new PBIP and PBIR file format
In 2026, the new Power BI default file format will be PBIR (JSON text format), which facilitates version control.
NB: for more details about this, see e.g.:
I wanted to try this out, so I made a new Messi Goals Tracker dashboard, using the PBIP (Power BI project) file format, that includes a PBIR-file for the report part, and a TMDL-file for the semantic model part.
NB: for earlier versions of Messi Goals Tracker dashboards, which I made with Google Looker Studio and Tableau, see these posts:
https://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com/2021/01/messi-goal-tracker-dashboard-in-google.html
https://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com/2025/08/tabelau-dashboard-messi-goals-tracker.html
Here is the Power BI dashboard:
And here is a video that I made about the dashboard:
This video shows a ´master class´penalty goal that Messi made in 2025 with Inter Miami.
And in this video you can see another, very special, penalty goal which Messi/Suarez made for Barcelona in 2016, in a way Cruyff did for Ajax in 1982 (also included in the video).
For version-control, I use the Git-functionality in MS Visual Studio Code. A nice feature it has that with Copilot, you can generate the content for the commits.
Here an example of a measure that I added to the Semantic Model in Power BI and the traces of this in Visual Code and GitHub:
And here you can see the PBIR-file with the code of the Info-page in the Power BI report:
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Downloads
*1: Power BI project file (PBIP)
https://github.com/mvanreek/messi-goals-powerbi-dashboard
*2: Power BI classic file format (PBIX):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j1MkiD_n0fDKBH9z8cXPFFtiRYlWdJUb/view?usp=sharing
