The 2013 Major League Soccer regular season concluded two weeks ago, and it’s time to repeat our past analysis of each club’s “front-office efficiency” at the end of the season. I define front-office efficiency as the marginal payroll costs per points earned by each club in MLS. You can find the original benchmarking analysis from […]
These are the show notes for Episode #5 of the Soccermetrics Podcasts, with featured guest David Sally, co-author of The Numbers Game. This episode was recorded on 7 November 2013 from the Atlanta office.David Sally is a behavioral economist by training (Ph.D, University of Chicago) and a visiting professor at Tuck School of Management at Dartmouth […]
These are show notes for Episode #4 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with featured guest Murray Innes. This interview was actually part of the video interviews for the Integral magazine project (of blessed memory) and is included here as additional content for Podcast subscribers. The interview was recorded on 8 August 2013, one week before the 2013-14 […]
These are show notes for Episode #3 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with featured guest Damien Comolli. This interview was actually part of the video interviews for the Integral magazine project (of blessed memory) and is included here as additional content for Podcast subscribers. The interview was recorded on 8 August 2013, one week before the […]
After the initial flurry of episodes into the Soccermetrics Podcast feed, I’ve settled on a bi-weekly release schedule for future episodes.The objective of the Soccermetrics Podcasts is to have deeper conversations with a guest than the typical football podcast, which requires a lot of background preparation. A bi-weekly schedule appears to strike a balance between […]
These are the show notes for Episode #2 of the Soccermetrics Podcasts, with featured guest Michael Calvin, author of The Nowhere Men. This show was recorded on 14 October 2013 from the Atlanta office. (I misspoke when I said October 10 in the broadcast.)Michael Calvin is a sport columnist for The Independent on Sunday and […]
These are show notes for Episode #1 of the Soccermetrics Podcasts, with featured guest Alberto Gutiérrez of Colo-Colo. The show was recorded on 11 October 2013 in London, where we had been attending the Leaders Sports Summit. It was recorded from a lobby of a hotel near the restaurant during breakfast time, so you can […]
We are starting a new feature on the site — Soccermetrics Podcasts.The Soccermetrics Podcasts will be an information and interview series with leading figures in the soccer analytics world. Soccer analytics will be the primary focus, but we’ll have conversations about the business side of football as well as analytics developments in related sports.All of […]
It’s time to return to Blighty for the Leaders Sports Summit and some football in the land where it was created. I wanted to create an opportunity for those analysts attending the Leaders conferences as well as other people working in the football industry in London to meet me and interact with each other. So […]
I’m a huge fan of automation. If it’s worth doing two or more times, it’s worth placing in a script so that you can make it happen at the push of a button.I’m also a huge fan of documentation. I’m obsessive about describing our processes and actions, and writing those descriptions down so that we […]
