Manchester City’s MCFC Analytics page is now online, and thousands of people are signing up to receive access to Opta’s on-ball data for the 2011-12 Premier League. But what will users be receiving? This post gives a hopefully not-too-technical description of the data. (more…)
Earlier this summer, we had a unique opportunity to interview Gavin Fleig and gain insights on his opinions in soccer analysis. Here’s part one and part two of that interview.Today, Gavin is cementing his position as one of the leaders in the soccer analytics industry by releasing the entire portfolio of data for Manchester City’s […]
We continue our retrospective of the Olympic Men’s football competition with a presentation of substitution patterns during the tournament. Substitutions were fewer and more defensive in nature than other national team tournaments this year, yet just as many goals were scored by substitutes in this competition.We start with a distribution of the substitution events at […]
We start our statistical retrospective of the 2012 Olympic football competition with a look at the rotation practices of the 16 finalists. This is in the same vein as similar analyses for the Africa Cup of Nations and the European Championships and includes the squad rotations through the end of the knockout stage (“medal round” […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2012 Major League Soccer regular season for matches played up to 12 August 2012. MLS’ competition format has made it more of a challenge to automate the tables, but it’s one that we’re more than willing to take. (more…)
We continue our look at the 2012 Olympic men’s football competition by examining the substitution behavior through the group stage matches. (more…)
We take a look at how Olympic team managers have rotated their squads during the men’s football competition of the London Olympics, using the same analysis conducted for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations and UEFA Euro 2012. (more…)
Dr Craig Duncan is the head of Human Performance at Sydney FC. He has become an internationally-recognized authority in sports science, especially as it relates to player monitoring and maximizing the performance of elite athletes. (more…)
It’s time for a new season of the CONCACAF Champions League, so here are the latest league and club coefficients for the region. (more…)
My previous post on substitutions at UEFA Euro 2012 drew a comment on Soccermetrics Research’s Facebook page that asked if I could control for the substitute’s position in my analysis. I was curious about the results myself, so here they are. (more…)
