There is a lot going on at and around the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference — sessions, demos, launches, and of course, parties. Lots of parties. I went to the Soccer Analytics gathering at McGreevy’s in downtown Boston last Thursday night and spent a wonderful evening talking shop with people working in the field or […]
This weekend I returned to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, a “must-appear” event for the sports analytics community, and an increasingly influential event in the sports business world. This year was the third edition of the Soccer Analytics panel, and for the first time, a member of the analytics blogosphere was on stage.Returning to […]
As most of you found out this afternoon, I wasn’t able to liveblog the Soccer Analytics panel on the site because of connectivity issues in the main venue. I did take notes of the discussions in the Soccer Analytics panel and I’m reproducing them here. (more…)
For what it’s worth, I finally got online and the Soccer Analytics panel is three-quarters gone.I am adding the summary later, but I’ll liveblog the remainder, for what it’s worth.
This post is the third and final preview article of the 2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference from a soccer perspective. In this post I will discuss the Soccer Analytics panel.The panel has come a long way from its first appearance in 2010, when it was called the Emerging Analytics panel and combined panelists from […]
Continuing the multi-part preview of the 2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, I look at the Evolution of Sport session for a soccer analytics perspective.In 2011, the SSAC added an Evolution of Sport (EOS) session to highlight presentations on ideas, technologies, or thoughts that have the potential to change the way people approach, play, and […]
This is the first in a multiple-part series of posts that preview the 2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. In this post, I will consider the finalists of the Research Paper Competition.The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference started a Research Paper session in 2010, coincidentally, my first year at the conference. It’s been a very popular […]
Tom Markham has made a name for himself in the past year by addressing the following question: When is the right time to fire a football manager? His work has attracted a lot of attention from the UK press and of course the clubs themselves, so it was only a matter of time before he […]
Tonight is an important milestone for Soccermetrics, as we present for the first time our initial web-based application that was built using our own web services (APIs). It is called ResultsPage and you can find it at resultspage.soccermetrics.net.The primary motivation behind ResultsPage is to automate the Pythagorean tables that we’ve created since the early days […]
Last month I wrote on the marginal payroll costs per point earned (which I called “front-office efficiency”) in the 2012 Major League Soccer season. (You can find more details on the approach in the linked post and the articles linked therein.) One of the criticisms of the metric was that it failed to take into […]
