When we were in the UK, we attended a couple of Premier League matches. I’ve already written about our trip to Manchester to see City vs Sunderland. Now it’s time to write about the second match that we saw 27 hours later: Tottenham vs Aston Villa. (more…)
We continue our interview of Michael Cox (Mr Zonal Marking), the second part of which was distributed to subscribers of the Soccermetrics Newsletter. Part one is here. Part two is below.[Interview originally conducted 4 December 2012.](Howard) Tactical discussions in football have a long history. How has the availability of in-match data affected the way we […]
Last year I wrote a series of posts that sought to find out the marginal payroll costs per point earned in Major League Soccer. This year I repeat the same analysis for the just-concluded 2012 regular season.As was the case last year, I calculated team payrolls using player base salary data from the MLS Players […]
Michael Cox is better known to thousands of football fans as the creator of Zonal Marking: a site about tactics and formations in football matches around the world. (more…)
I said in my previous Pythagorean post that it would be my last post before the automated service goes up, but I was so gobsmacked about the final table for the J-League that I had to create a Pythagorean for that competition. (more…)
We conclude our Pythagorean tables for the first quarter of the major European football league season with the table for France’s Ligue 1. The table is for matches played up to 5 November 2012 and the league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. (more…)
We present the Pythagorean table for the German Bundesliga, for matches played up to 5 November 2012. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. (more…)
We present the Pythagorean table for the 2012-13 English Premier League, for matches played up to 5 November 2012. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. (more…)
We present the Pythagorean table for the 2012-13 Spanish Primera season, for matches played up to 5 November 2012. We use the league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70. (more…)
We start our Pythagorean tables of the Big Five European leagues with Italy’s Serie A. The table is for matches played up to 4 November, and the league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. (more…)
