I follow cricket from time to time and I've noticed that their broadcasts have been at or near the forefront of sports broadcasts in terms of data visualization over the past 20 years. One example has been the on-screen score "watermark" (not sure of the precise term) which I believe predates its inclusion in football […]
At the Dutch football site 11tegen11 (11 on 11) there is an extended discussion on possession analysis in football and its evolution over the years. The motivating principle is a simple one — if you don't have the ball you can't score, to paraphrase Johan Cruyff. But assessing the likelihood of scoring goals and winning […]
I have set up a FTP site that will store the executable files related to Soccermetrics' open-source development projects. It's become very clear to me that Github, while an excellent code repository host, is not the best option for storing binary files. It will become even more unwieldy as I create branches from the main […]
In about 45 days I will be in London to attend the Leaders in Performance conference. I am looking forward to the trip for a variety of reasons, including the opportunity to network with potential clients and connect with my readers who are based in the UK or other parts of Europe.To this end I […]
It's been a couple of months since the last such table, but now that we're in the final third of the season it's time to publish a Pythagorean league table for the 2011 Major League Soccer season. The table contains matches played up to last Sunday (14 August), so last night's matches (Philadelphia-Sporting KC and […]
This is the fifth and final part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the previous articles:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart IV: Code releaseNow that my codebase for the FMRD has been made public, this will be the […]
This is the fourth part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the other articles in the series:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsThis is the moment that you — and I — have […]
This is the third part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the other articles in the series:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart IV: Code releasePart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsYesterday I wrote a long article on the origins of the FMRD and the […]
The 2011-12 CONCACAF Champions League has kicked off tonight, and it is time to publish the preseason 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 […]
This is the second part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the other articles:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart IV: Code releasePart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsI've looked back at my previous posts on the subject and I realize that I have been […]
