Continuing with the results that I had presented last night on the weighted goalscorers of this season's La Liga, here — for your edification and amusement — are the top goalscorers for each of the 20 Primera División teams: Player Team Goals Weighted José Ulloa Almería 7 4.586 Fernando Llorente Athletic 17 10.284 Sergio Agüero […]
I was very encouraged by the reception that my weighted goalscorers metric has received, so I went to work on applying the metric to a league competition. It is not a trivial task at all, especially when you are building a table of league fixtures and goalscorers and organizing them by matchdays. But after about […]
I have been doing work on in-match metrics relevant to soccer, but lately I have been looking for ways to extract information, however imperfect, from the limited amount of data that we obtain from a match. Goran of the Waiting for the Equalizer blog came up with a goalkeeper metric that weighted goals allowed by […]
A couple of days ago I was invited to speak at the upcoming Sports Management Conference at Florida State University, and I am pleased to announce that I have accepted the invitation. I have not settled on a topic, but it will have something to do with the state of soccer analytics and its potential […]
I have changed my Twitter username to @soccermetrics. Please direct all future follows there.@socmetrics now belongs to SocMetrics.com, a social media startup.
It's taken a very long time to get to this point, but my paper on the Soccer Pythagorean has been published in the recent edition of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. You can find a link to the paper here. Thanks to all who helped bring this about, and it is my hope and […]
Bayesian statistics is a branch of statistics that I have been studying recently because of the framework it provides for updating probabilities and statistical distributions with incoming data. It could prove useful to some statistical models that I am developing and will develop in the future. I've been looking for books and online material on […]
The 2010-11 CONCACAF Champions League is now over, and it is time to publish the final set of club and country coefficients. For those new to the site and unaware of how the coefficients work, here is an explanation of my methodology. These are coefficients calculated over the last five seasons, inclusive.First, here is the […]
I see that Chris Anderson has been having fun with nice-looking scatter plots lately, so why let him have all that to himself?I've had my doubts that you could describe goal distributions as Poisson, at least when it comes to deriving derivative expressions from them. A formulation of the soccer Pythagorean doesn't work with a […]
Major League Soccer is beta-testing its new website which is to be enhanced with in-match data from Opta Sports. There are more data presented than before, but consider me decidedly underwhelmed by the total package. First of all, there are no data that indicate where, specifically, on the field a match event occurred. It is true […]
