This is the first part of what will be a week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the upcoming articles:Part II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart IV: Code releasePart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsI have been very quiet on the Football Match Result Database […]
The Political Economy of Football website has published a list of the top 30 European clubs in attendance of domestic league matches over the past three seasons. It makes for very interesting reading. The top three or four teams are those that you would expect to see, such as Manchester United, Barcelona, and Real Madrid, […]
There was a glowing report in yesterday's Jamaica Observer about the National Premier League's agreement with a sports management company in the USA and the UK to collect player data for an international soccer repository. The site is called SoccerAssociation.com and is operated from the United Kingdom. The article goes on to say that the […]
Last year I presented a scatter plot of goalscoring variances and color-coded the dots by points per game average of the associated teams. There was quite an overlap between regions, but some trends were evident, especially in defensive goal statistics and league performance. I'm going to expand on that previous post and present data in […]
I have been looking for reports on the business model of football clubs in South America for some time, in particular the larger (in an economic sense) South American nations such as Brazil, Mexico, or Chile. Jérôme Osselaer has written a detailed analysis on the financial model of Brazilian clubs ranging from profit and loss […]
P. Antonioni and J. Cubbin, "The Bosman Ruling and the emergence of a single market in soccer talent", European Journal of Law and Economics, 9(2): 157-73, 2000.This paper discusses the effect of the Bosman Ruling on the nature of contracts between club and player under the modeling framework of options pricing theory. It uses the […]
If you've been following me on Twitter, you would have seen my tweets chronicling my move from Tucson to the Atlanta area. I am happy to announce that I arrived in Atlanta Saturday afternoon after three and a half days and more than 1,700 miles on the road. My furniture hasn't arrived yet, and I'm […]
The organizers of the recently concluded World Congress on Science and Football have set up a YouTube channel on which you can view oral presentations from the conference. I have not verified this, but it looks like all of the presentations have been videotaped, so you can cross-reference them against the final program to find […]
Simon Kuper, the co-writer of Soccernomics, has written a comprehensive piece in this weekend's Financial Times on the growth of the use of statistical analysis in football. The article focuses on English soccer, primarily because it is the one soccer league that has demonstrated a willingness to use numbers in their match planning and player […]
I noticed an uptick in my visitor logs from the Red Cafe website, which is a forum for Manchester United supporters. This is the post that drew in today's visits, and here is another post on the forum (that one by Rational Football's "letranger0") that referenced this site. To all of you visiting, welcome! And […]
