It's a pity that my Amazon book shipment arrived today, because I came across another book that will probably have to read at some point in the future. It is called The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball, written by Sheldon and Alan Hirsch. The title pretty […]
Rob Carroll has come down from the lush green hills of Ireland with his Ten Commandments for performance analysis in sports, and you can read them at his Video Analyst site. I agree with just about all of them, especially #4 and #5. You can measure a lot in sport, but there are some things […]
Ticketing analytics isn't my main focus area, but I wanted to alert people to another sports analytics contest out there. The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania has a program called the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, in which one of their corporate partners shares their dataset and solicits research proposals from the analytics […]
This post is directed toward my British and Irish readers and those who might be able to get to East London in ten days' time.On 27 March there will be a conference called Science and Football to be held at the University of East London, Dockland campus. The scope of the conference is as it […]
[This is an expanded post of the one I published on HexagonalBlog today (11 March). I've now bumped it to the top and added some more analysis to make it a one-parter in the end.]Most people would say that CD Saprissa's artificial turf gives them a significant home advantage. But Saprissa's stadium has always been […]
I had said after the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference that I would write a more detailed summary of the conference, but let things slide until a couple of readers reminded me of what I had promised. It's been a couple of weeks and my initial feelings are a little fuzzy now, but here are my […]
This isn't really an analytics kind of post, but it's relevant because we as analysts often have to communicate our ideas and results to people who don't have the same level of expertise, and it's important that we present information so that we don't lose decision-makers or lose credibility. Ben Alamar wrote a post to […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 English Premier League season, for matches played up to 11 March 2011. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. Tottenham has been the real overperformer this season, which few people will complain with. Chelsea have underperformed this season — again, few will argue with that statement — but […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 Spanish Primera División season, for matches played up to 11 March 2011. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. Barcelona and Real Madrid have had strong seasons, but the two-horse race (or one-horse race if you wish to be truthful) that the two giants have created has obscured […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 German 1. Bundesliga season, for matches played up to 11 March 2011. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. Hannover 96 have cooled off considerably, but they are still vastly overperforming the rest of the Bundesliga and lie in a Champions League place. Stuttgart have improved from their […]
