I wasn't aware of this until Sarah Rudd alerted me to it on Twitter, but this year's MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference will have a Soccer Analytics session. (Hey, it's not like I'm checking the website everyday!) Last year's conference had an Emerging Analytics panel discussion which features representatives from soccer and American football, but […]
A quick look at my post archive has reminded me that this weekend marked the two-year anniversary of Soccermetrics. I wasn't able to write a post yesterday because I wasn't near a computer (and there was too much going on yesterday anyway), but I don't think anyone will kick up a fuss about me being […]
J. Apesteguia and I. Palacios-Huerta, “Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment”, American Economic Review 100 (December 2010): 2548-2564.This economics paper focuses on the psychological issues involved in high-stakes competitive environments, using the penalty kick shootout as an illustration. The major finding of the paper is that there is a structural […]
