If you’ve been following Soccermetrics on Twitter this week, you would have seen infographics on the Front-Office Efficiencies of all nineteen Major League Soccer teams. You could have worked out the ranking yourself, but if not, below is the full infographic for posterity.For those who want to understand how I did it, here is this […]
If you’ve been following me on Twitter (and you really should), I’ve been posting graphics of MLS Front-Office Efficiency figures for every club in the league. I have made major changes to the formulation this year, and at any rate there are newcomers to this site all the time, so I will present Version 3 […]
I have been attending the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference since 2010, right at the time that the Conference was transitioning from an intimate meeting of professional sports insiders and academics to a slick and polished cultural event. As happens every year at this time, I receive notifications from the organizers of the conference that encourage […]
I’ve been working on front-office efficiency figures for Major League Soccer in 2014, and while I’ve been putting those results together I wanted to see what kind of information could be shown with the data that I have. One idea that came to mind was to take minutes played data of MLS players in the […]
The OptaPro Analytics Forum has returned for a second year in 2015, and has issued a call for proposals. (more…)
The 2014 Major League Soccer regular season concluded a week and a half ago. It’s time to look back at the projections made at the start of the season and assess them.Here is what we projected at the beginning of the season – first by conference:And then the single table:The final league table finished like this […]
The Joint Mathematics Meeting is the major mathematics conference in the USA, taking place in early January and organized by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America and a few other technical organizations. Among the many sessions at the JMM is one on Mathematics and Sports, which returns for another year. (I don’t […]
The organizing committee of the 2015 International Conference on Mathematics in Sport (MathSport International) has announced its call for papers. Next year’s conference is hosted by Loughborough University in the UK from 29 June – 1 July 2015. (more…)
In an earlier post I presented the estimated effective playing time in this summer’s World Cup matches over 90 minutes. (They are estimates because the raw data used to calculate effective time do not track the moments when the ball leaves the field of play.) Eight matches were decided in extra time, so for completeness […]
Since I started to apply mean time between fouls and mean time between stoppages to World Cup data, I was curious to find out if there was any correlation between these “mean-time-between” metrics and the effective match time. I’ll examine the correlation issues in this post.For reference, here is my post on MTBF for the […]
