[2012-07-05: This position has been filled. I’m leaving this post on the site for archival purposes. You can find the latest job notices on the Jobs page, and we’re always looking for talent at [email protected].]I’ve been running SRC full-time for almost seven months now. A lot has happened since June 1: I moved cross-country, built […]
I wrote a couple of weeks ago that a new Soccermetrics company website was in development with the intention of having it go live by the 1st of the year. I wanted to bring together the three SRC-related sites under one content management system — company/product/client information, the blog, and the software and document repository, […]
Rob Carroll, who operates a performance analyst site called The Video Analyst, has written a very detailed two-part summary of the Sports Analytics conference that was held in Manchester a couple of weeks ago. Part One is available here and Part Two is here. Highlights of the conference were presentations by Bill Gerrard on evidence-based […]
I decided to open a BigSoccer account last night for the purpose of contributing to the soccer analytics and business forums there. A number of my posts have been linked on BigSoccer forums in the past, but I admit to having a arms-length relationship with Big Soccer for a very long time. There are some […]
(This blog has been written entirely in English, but if my English-speaking readers will indulge me, I'm going to write the rest of this post in Spanish.)En los últimos años, había sido una interés cada vez mayor en usar métodos cuantificativos para analizar el juego tanto individual como colectivo en el fútbol, y también evaluar […]
Moneyball, the movie, premieres in Britain this weekend and there will be a private advance screening at Prozone tonight. As part of the advance preparation for the premiere here is an article from the Daily Mail on the impact that Opta and Prozone's data has had on how we understand the Premier League and assess […]
I mentioned on Twitter earlier this week that there were some changes coming to Soccermetrics on the company side. Multiple things are happening in parallel, but one of those that I can announce at this time is a new website for Soccermetrics Research & Consulting. When I launched the company on a full-time basis five months […]
Over the last couple of days I read a pair of articles that followed on some previous posts of mine. I retweeted one, but I haven't mentioned the other until now.The first is the conversation that Moneyball writer Michael Lewis and Billy Beane had about the book, the movie, and the state of analytics in […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 Italian Serie A season, for matches played up to 6 November 2011. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used. The Italian league started late due to a player's strike, so I held off on publishing these results until the season reached the quarter-mark.Keep in mind […]
There is an informative interview on the Beyond the Pitch website with John Coulson and Duncan Alexander of Opta Sports about the collection of data in football and its growing use in the sport. Anto (the host), John, and Duncan talk for about 30 minutes on Opta's growth in the football industry, its data collection […]
