My talk entitled "Entrepreneurship and Soccer Analytics" that I gave at Florida State's Sports Management Conference is now available here as a PDF. It will also be available on the public FTP site of Soccermetrics Research & Consulting in the Presentations folder.My thanks to Dr. Ryan Rodenberg for extending the invitation to present. It was a […]
On Friday I will give a presentation at the 13th Sports Management Conference hosted by Florida State University's Sports Management program. My talk is entitled "Entrepreneurship and Soccer Analytics", which isn't the best title that I could come up with but nevertheless covers the scope of my presentation. I will talk about the motivation for […]
This afternoon I watched Moneyball at a theater in midtown Atlanta. I was looking forward to watching the movie not just because I had read the book, but also because I lived in the Bay Area during 2001-02 when the Oakland A's were one of the best teams in Major League Baseball. So I remember […]
B. Gerrard, "Is the Moneyball Approach Transferable to Complex Invasion Team Sports?", International Journal of Sport Finance, 2: 214-230, 2007. [Citation]This paper analyzes reasons for the success of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics as described in the best-seller Moneyball using a benchmarking technique and investigates the development of a knowledge-based strategy in conjunction with systematic […]
*** PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE ***I have settled on a place to have my Big UK Drinkup — an opportunity for those attending the Leaders in Performance conference as well as those UK-based readers of my site to enjoy a few brews and meet in a relaxed and informal setting. And it's a chance for […]
The Manchester Business School is hosting a new Sports Analytics Conference to be held on the 16th of November. According to the organizers, the conference "is a unique opportunity for High Performance sports professionals to gain a thorough understanding of this revolutionary discipline [sports analytics]." The list of speakers is still to be confirmed, but […]
If you are considering a submission for the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference research paper contest, you will need to act fast. Deadline for submission of abstracts is next Friday, 16 September at 5pm EDT. As was the case last year, the selection process will take place over two rounds. The first round will cull […]
The current issue of IEEE Spectrum has an article on the current state of goal-line technology and the chances of a system being adopted by FIFA in the next two years. Nine companies will participate in FIFA's first round of testing in December, and a select group will be invited for a further round of […]
A few days ago, the Performance Analysis group at Manchester City Football Club released a pair of videos that demonstrate the role that analysis has in player development, match preparation, and match analysis. The first video looks at the use of performance analysis for opposition scouting and youth development, and the second video describes its […]
I received an email about a session on Mathematics and Sports to be held at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings the first week of January in Boston. It's the largest mathematics conference in the world and is organized by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Here is a description […]
