This is the fourth year of a dedicated Soccer Analytics panel at the SSAC, and the fifth time that a panel has discussed soccer at the conference (in 2010, it was lumped with American football in an Emerging Analytics session). The session has experienced a variety of participants since 2011, but with two exceptions — […]
It is time for the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and I am pleased to announce the return of a most recent tradition: the pre-SSAC Soccer Analytics Meetup.Here are the details: Thursday 27 February 7pm – ? McGreevy’s Boston 911 Boylston St., Boston 02115 Grab a beer, a bite to eat, make a friend, and […]
It’s been several months since we last posted updates on the Soccermetrics API to the blog. Not to say that there haven’t been updates — quite a lot, in fact — it’s just that we’ve chosen to reveal those changes through the API documentation pages. But we’ve introduced a pair of changes that are quite […]
These are the show notes for Episode #10 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with guest Oliver Page. This interview was recorded on 21 February 2014 from my Atlanta office.Oliver Page is a sports trader with experience at a number of firms in the United Kingdom and interests in applying academic research and mathematical concepts to sports statistics […]
These are the show notes for Episode #9 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with guests Simon Farrant and Devin Pleuler of OptaPro. This interview was recorded on 7 February 2014 from Opta Sports headquarters in central London.I was in London to attend the first OptaPro Analytics Forum, which brought together football analytics researchers who made use […]
Last week I had the privilege of attending the OptaPro Analytics Forum in London. It was organized by OptaPro, Opta Sports’ professional services organization, with the objective of bringing together in one room a select group of football analytics researchers and performance analysts and other officials from the professional football clubs which use Opta data […]
I do have a technical post that I’m trying to finish tonight, but I wanted to post this message before I forget it.I mentioned on Twitter a few weeks ago, but I wanted to repeat on the site that I will be attending the Opta Analytics Forum in London on Thursday. My travel plans are […]
[This is the third and final part of my perspectives on Soccermetrics on its 5th anniversary.]As I said at the end of part two, football analytics haven’t stood still over the last two years. In fact, a lot of people have gotten involved from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. I’ve heard about some of […]
[This is the second part of my perspectives on Soccermetrics on its 5th anniversary.]While I was expanding from writing about other people’s research in soccer analytics to conducting my own, events were occurring on a backdrop of a Soccermetrics’ transition from a blog to something more formal. I attended the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference […]
[This is the first of a three-part series on my perspectives on Soccermetrics on its 5th anniversary.]On 8 January 2009, I started Soccermetrics in order to “consider problems in applied mathematics and statistics that have applications toward a better understanding of soccer.” This month will mark not just the fifth anniversary of the site, but […]
