As you might have noticed, I have not written much analytics content over the past month to five weeks. The reason is that I’ve been preparing for a talk that will be presented at the 2015 OptaPro Analytics Forum in London on Thursday. It’s been a lot of work, but presentation day is almost here.Unfortunately, […]
The 2015 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is a month away, but it’s not too early to start thinking about the pre-Conference meetup and drinkup for soccer analysts and aficionados attending. The SSAC is at a different location this year but the drinkup location is the same as in previous years: Thursday 26 February 7pm […]
A couple of months ago, OptaPro — Opta Sports’ professional services branch — announced a call for proposals for its Analytics Forum in early February. Over 100 proposals were submitted, including a couple of mine.I am pleased to announce that one of my proposals was one of ten accepted for presentation at the Forum — initial […]
A few months ago, I was trying to convince myself that attending this year’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference was still worth the money, and after writing down the specific features of the conference I was able to do so. In the meantime, tickets for the Conference were selling at such a rate that the event […]
The theory and practice of sports analytics has grown exponentially over the last eight to ten years, and a number of conferences, symposia, and journals have formed to fill the demand for an exchange of information. I found out about one such journal that launched very recently called the Journal of Sports Analytics.The JSA was founded by […]
Continuing from my previous post, I present the impact of Japan’s second-division clubs on the amount of effective playing time relative to the average in J-League Division Two (J2).Here’s some summary data on playing time in J2: The mean effective playing time in J2 during the 2014 season was 52 minutes 30 seconds. This average […]
Happy New Year to all of our readers! I hope all of you have a healthy and productive 2015.Let’s ease into the year with some analysis of effective match time in the 2014 J-League Division One competition. It’s similar to what I’ve done in previous analyses of the Premier League and J-League competitions, and you […]
Last year I wrote a series of posts on effective playing time in the top two J-League divisions at the mid-season and end-of-season marks. Further analysis of the numbers using an admittedly crude regression model indicated that some clubs have a significantly greater effect on the amount of playing time than others, for better or […]
One of the features of Soccermetrics in the early days of the website has been “Paper Discussions“, in which I discuss research articles that investigate quantitative analysis problems related to soccer. Some of them were classic papers in the field, while others were recently published. There were even some researchers who went out of their […]
Interesting news from OptaPro — Opta Sports’ professional services arm — that player tracking data from English Premier League matches will be made available to successful proposals to their Analytics Forum next year. The data comes from Opta’s partner Tracab, which uses their image-tracking technology to generate 3D sports data for media customers (they are […]
