We introduce the Soccermetrics API — a sports modelling and analytics layer on top of in-match data sources at varying levels of complexity. The API delivers advanced match analysis of data in an accessible form and makes it easier for end-users to create their own customized analysis tools on football data.This API — also known […]
Martin Tyler. Do I really need to give him an introduction?He’s the lead football commentator for Sky Sports in the UK, and he’s called UEFA Champions League games and the World Cup for Fox and ESPN. He’s been called “the voice of English football”, and not just in England. And in addition to all that, […]
One thing that is true about companies — and maybe any entities that is exposed to the public — is that failures aren’t discussed often. As CEO of Soccermetrics Research, I need to face up to one such failure now.Last month we launched the Integral Magazine project on Kickstarter which was to be a preview […]
I received the following call for abstracts to the 2014 AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting to be held in Baltimore on 15-18 January. The JMM has had a Math and Sports session for a couple of years now, and they are doing it again this year. The abstracts are for 15-minute talks on current research and […]
It’s time to put forward our league projection for the 2013-14 Barclays Premier League. Once again, these projections are a combination of expected goal statistics based on statistical output in previous seasons and the current squad (thanks to Aaron Nielsen) and a Pythagorean projection of team records based on expected goal statistics. So here’s how […]
The Spanish Primera — La Liga — premieres this weekend, and the Segunda starts tonight. So it’s a good time to present our league projections for 2013-14.Segunda División We project that Sporting Gijón will be promoted to the 2014-15 Primera as champions. Mallorca and Real Zaragoza will be involved in a two-way fight for promotion […]
We now move into projecting the league outcomes for the English leagues, and we start with the three divisions of the Football League below the Premier League. The season kicked off last weekend, but the projections aren’t going to be affected by one match.Again, if you want to know how we did these projections, consult […]
This is Part 4 of our European league projections, and we start down under with the Australian A-League, then focus on selected leagues in Central Europe, and finish with Italy, which isn’t in Central Europe but close enough.Again, if you want to know how we come up with these projections, we explain them in Part […]
We continue our league projections for the 2013-14 European season, starting with the decidedly non-European league in South Africa.South Africa: This league kicked off a couple of weeks ago. We think the Premier Soccer League will be very close, but Kaiser Chiefs could sneak a title from SuperSport United, Orlando Pirates, and Platinum Stars. At […]
We continue our projections of selected European leagues in 2013-14 with eight more competitions in France, Germany, Greece, Poland, and Russia. In Part I of this series, we explain how we developed these projections.Here we go —France (Ligue 1): Most observers expect PSG and Monaco to be the top two teams in Ligue 1 given […]
