How have managers at the Africa Cup of Nations deployed their substitutions during their matches, and have they had their desired impact on the game? I take a look at the match result data to answer the first question and start to answer the second.One caveat that I should state is that the timings of […]
When I’m shuttered away in my home office hacking code or trying to figure out how I’m going to make money, I fail to notice certain events. And one of those events was a really big one — Stefan Szymanski is now at the University of Michigan!Dr. Szymanski was until recently a noted economics professor […]
I’ve only just started to extract statistical data from the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations database, and I am getting more excited about the various analyses that my database schema has enabled. I’m going to start by summarizing the performance of a group that comes in for a lot of commentary, but not necessarily analysis: […]
If you have been following my Twitter feed over the last ten days, I’ve been building a match result database for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations using my Football Match Result Database schema. I wanted to test my designs in the field, so to speak, using a competition that would exercise almost all of […]
Continuing my statistical review of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (as well as continuing my development and testing of my FMRD software library), i start a multi-part study of the rotations made in the starting lineup by the managers in the competition. Squad rotation is a necessity for managers in the modern game as […]
Erik van den Berg, “The Valuation of Human Capital in the Football Player Transfer Market: An investigation on transfer fees paid and received in the English Premier League”, M.Sc. Thesis, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, July 2011. [Link] I was doing a search for something in preparation for my Advisory Board meeting and came […]
There’s a really great conference in Silicon Valley on data science called the O’Reilly Strata Conference. It is a three-day conference that contains plenary and invited talks on various aspects of data science, from database, analysis, and visualization platforms to applications in industry, government, and academia to the policy implications of data-driven companies. I am particularly […]
I am very pleased to announce the formation of an Advisory Board for Soccermetrics Research & Consulting. A startup needs the input of a diverse collection of actors in order to become a successful and sustainable company, and advisors are a key element. These advisors have taken an interest in me and my company and […]
We present the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 Italian Serie A season, for matches played up to 15 January 2012. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used. The Pythagorean table reflects points won on the field of play, so it does not account for the six-point penalty applied to Atalanta this season.All of […]
We present the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 French Ligue 1 season, for matches played up to 15 January 2012. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.At the halfway point of the season, the Pythagorean table indicates that the Ligue 1 title will come down to a head-to-head battle between Paris St-Germain and […]
