We introduce league projections on Soccermetrics for over 20 leagues that follow the European calendar. Most of these leagues are in Europe, of course, but there are also leagues in the Americas, Africa, and Asia that also follow such a schedule.To make these projections we first project the goals scored and allowed by a team. […]
I haven’t written much about the software that we develop in order to do our analysis, although I have written about our football data models. Hopefully this will be the start of a series of posts in which I unveil a little bit under the covers of what we do here. This post is aimed […]
We are very excited to bring to you Integral Magazine: a fully digital, analytics-based football magazine for stats-obsessed football fans and anyone else interested in understanding their favorite sport in a different way. Our Kickstarter Campaign page is here.Soccer has experienced a slow evolution in the use of data to understand the game and make […]
Since last season the J-League has been publishing — through its data partner Datastadium — actual playing time statistics for every match in Divisions 1 and 2. It’s part of a new initiative called +Quality (Plus Quality) which aims to improve the spectacle of matches for spectators by minimizing the events that annoy them, like […]
I see that my posts on match tempo have attracted a lot of attention and comments. Some of them disagree with my approach and/or ask some interesting questions. I don’t have a problem with that — the existence of critical comments indicates that people care enough about what your work to pose them.One comment asked […]
John DeWitt wears a number of hats in his life — leading biomechanics researcher at NASA, co-founder of an engineering firm, and an Academy coach at Major League Soccer side Houston Dynamo. John and I had a great discussion on all of those roles and how they interact between each other.[Interview conducted 19 July 2013.] […]
A few weeks ago I wrote my thoughts on match tempo as it is currently defined in soccer. Essentially, the possessions per team metric, one borrowed from basketball, runs into some limitations when applied to football or other invasion sports conducted over a large playing area. This opinion is not a knock on other analysts […]
Since I started Soccermetrics, I’ve tried very hard to instill a culture of honesty and integrity alongside our technical abilities. Along the way we’ve developed some practices in support of that culture, but for the most part those practices and policies have been unwritten. Now that we’re releasing and selling products, it’s time to put […]
In my previous post on match tempo, I presented a chart that compared final league position to average possessions per game and average effective time in a match. It was rude of me to introduce a term and not define it, much less discuss it, so I’ll do so now.I’ve been fascinated by the idea […]
The U-20 World Cup started last Friday, and Groups A and B have already played two matches, but nevertheless we present the list of who we feel are the top potential prospects for each finalist as we head into the 2013-14 European club season: France – Paul Pogba, Geoffrey Kondogbia, Jean-Christophe Bahebeck, Jordan Veretout Ghana […]
