I am pleased to announce that Soccermetrics will provide advanced analytics content on every match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in cooperation with sports data company DataFactory.For close to two years Soccermetrics has partnered with DataFactory, the leading sports statistical data company in South America, to create advanced analytics content from their match data […]
Continuing my postseason analysis of Argentina’s Superliga, I examine the performance of the players up front.Argentina has always been known for its conveyor belt of attacking and creating talent. That talent appears to leave for Europe at younger ages these days, to the extent that the best strikers in the domestic league are either journeymen […]
Jorge Sampaoli, manager of Argentina’s national team, announced his preliminary squad list for the 2018 FIFA World Cup earlier this week. The fact that no fewer than seven players currently in Superliga were in the group of 35 raised more than a few eyebrows, but few were more surprising than River Plate’s Franco Armani.Armani joined […]
Throughout Argentina’s Superliga season I’ve presented two league tables side-by-side — one based on the actual league results, and an alternative table based on the expected goal scorelines. Here’s the final table:(I color coded the outcome zones for the teams; yellow is for the league champion, blue goes to group stage of Copa Libertadores 2019, […]
Boca Juniors have repeated as champions of Argentina and champions of the newly created Superliga. Boca has been at the top of the league for over a calendar year, the title has been Boca’s to lose since November or December, and all challengers to the title had faded away or were turned back in showdowns […]
Philip Maymin, “An open-sourced optical tracking and advanced eSports analytics platform for League of Legends”, presented at the 12th MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Boston, MA, 2018. [PDF]eSports games should have lots of advanced data at their disposal, but the reality is that they don’t. In fact, most of the statistics available in games are […]
Ya estamos en la recta final de la Superliga Argentina 2017/18 que a todos los clubes les quedan siete o ocho partidos. (San Lorenzo y Independiente juegan su partido por la Fecha 15 el 4 de abril.) Aquí va la tabla de posiciones luego de la fecha 20 (resultados actuales a la izquierda de la […]
We’re now into the last quarter of the 2017-18 Superliga Argentina season as almost all of the teams have seven matches remaining. (San Lorenzo and Independiente will make up their Round 15 match on the 4th of April.) Here is what the table looks like (standings based on actual results on the left, standings based […]
The Fields Institute at the University of Toronto is organizing a two-day Fields Sports Analytics Workshop in about two months’ time — 24-25 May. The objective of the conference will be to disseminate current methods, practices, and research in sports analytics, and in particular the role of advanced techniques in mathematics, statistics, and computer science.The […]
On May 7 and 8 there will be a Conference on Predictive Inference and its Applications at Iowa State University. Predictive inference, as best as I understand it, is different from more traditional views of statistical inference in that while most inference seeks to predict model parameters, which are then used to predict the future, […]
