Match tempo is an important metric in soccer and other field invasion sports because it provides the context for understanding other in-game actions such as possession and offensive and defensive output. Much of the pioneering work in tempo in sport started with people such as Dean Oliver, John Hollinger, and Ken Pomeroy in basketball and […]
Rob Carroll has been working in sports performance analysis for 10 years, and he’s the proprietor of The Video Analyst which is a repository of information resources for practitioners in the field. Rob and I had a discussion about performance analysis in sport and we touched on the issue of unpaid analyst jobs in the […]
The 2012-13 European football season came to an end this weekend, at least in the top flight. It won’t be officially over until the first of July, but it’s time to take a look back at the season and examine which teams were significant performers (or underperformers) relative to their statistical expectations. And once again, […]
Lionel Messi’s 21-match goalscoring streak this La Liga season is the longest seen in domestic football competitions in 75 years (16 matches by Teodor Peterek for Polish side Ruch Chorzów in 1937-38). Whenever streaks in sport are discussed, it’s inevitable that someone — especially if that someone is American — will mention Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game […]
We said at the beginning of May that this month would be quite consequential. We are pleased to introduce player prospect reports for sale on the Soccermetrics site.These reports find their origin in prospect lists that Aaron Nielsen developed as part of his end-of-season reviews for over 60 domestic league competitions in 2012. These lists […]
A few days ago we pushed some updates to the web service that supplies match result data to our ResultsPage app, and we’d like to share one of these new features to you.As you know, ResultsPage calculates various types of league tables on a round-by-round basis, one of them being the Pythagorean table. We’ve isolated […]
Bill Gerrard is someone who I’ve wanted to meet since I started Soccermetrics. Prof. Gerrard is a pioneer in statistical performance analysis in sport and a leader in bringing an evidence-based approach to coaching in football, rugby league and rugby union. Perhaps he’s better known in North America for his work with Billy Beane of […]
It gives me great pleasure to introduce Aaron Nielsen as a member of the Soccermetrics team. But to be honest, does Aaron really need an introduction? (more…)
It’s the last international break of the 2012-13 European season, so it’s a good time to look at the major European leagues and observe which clubs have been over- or under-performing this season.I don’t need to tell you that the Big Five European leagues are pretty much decided, and have been decided for a while. […]
[This post is based on a research paper that I wrote with Aaron Nielsen and submitted to the MIT SSAC Research Paper competition. It didn’t advance to the final round but we hope that the results are of interest to the analytics community. We’ll continue refining this work throughout the year.]Exec Summary: We perform a […]
