Over the last two months, I have been releasing new versions of the data models that support Soccermetrics’ research projects. During these releases, I have written that this was part of a much larger process to share more code, and eventually more data, with the soccer analytics community.In keeping with that process, today I am […]
About two months ago, I wrote on this blog that I had submitted a couple of proposals to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and the OptaPro Analytics Forum for consideration in their respective research symposia.About two weeks ago, I received the word from both conferences that none of the proposals was accepted. I’m never […]
Today, I announce the release of the Marcotti-Events data schema on GitHub. Marcotti-Events (formerly known as Football Match Events Database) extends the Marcotti data schema to capture the micro events — touch-by-touch or technical/tactical data in soccer analytics parlance — that make up a football match. There are still some tweaks to be made as […]
As you know, the Soccermetrics data models are named Marcotti. Over the weekend, the flurry of updates to the projects received some attention: @soccermetrics erm… can’t help but ask… how did u come up with this name? — Gabriele Marcotti (@Marcotti) December 12, 2015After I explained the thinking behind the name, I received this response: […]
A little over three years ago — around the time that the MCFC Analytics initiative was being launched — we rolled out a superset of the Football Match Result Database that accommodated the summary statistics of the MCFC Analytics dataset. That database was called FMRD-Summary. We used it on a few projects, most notably an early […]
The modernization of the Soccermetrics data models continues. Early this morning I made a soft release of the Marcotti repository on GitHub, and I’d like to write a few words about that now.Marcotti is a snazzier name for what used to be called FMRD — the Football Match Result Database. This is the original data […]
Last month I gave a progress report on analytics projects and software under development. Today I’m pleased to announce that Marcotti-Light — the light version of Soccermetrics’ match database schemas — has been open-sourced on GitHub.Marcotti-Light is used to create databases that track full-time scorelines in all types of competitions and matches that involve either […]
With the end of the 2015 MLS regular season, it is time to generate a new edition of the Front-Office Efficiency table. As with last year, the table will be displayed as an infographic on this page and the Soccermetrics SlideShare page, and as twenty individual panels on the Soccermetrics Twitter feed.The calculation of the […]
The 2015 Major League Soccer regular season concluded last Sunday. It’s time to engage in that exercise in humility in which I look back at projections made at the start of the season and assess them.Here is what was projected at the beginning of the season – first by conference:And then the single table:The final […]
About a month or so ago on Twitter, I wrote that it was past time for me to provide an update on some ongoing projects. Unfortunately that will have to wait a while as some projects have been submitted as proposals to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and the OptaPro Analytics Forum. I know […]
