We present the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 German 1. Bundesliga season, which is currently in its winter break. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.Bayern Munich lead the Bundesliga table at the halfway break, but they could have been in a much stronger position than they are actually. Bayern’s -5 Pythagorean residual […]
We present the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 Spanish Primera División season, for matches played up to 15 January 2012. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.Real Madrid and Barcelona maintain their huge gap between themselves and the rest of La Liga, but Barcelona’s performance has dipped a bit since October (although I […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 English Premier League season, for matches played up to 15 January 2012. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.The gap between the Manchester clubs and the rest of the league is smaller than it was in October, but that’s because of the surge by Tottenham […]
The new website for Soccermetrics Research & Consulting has gone live.Notice that I didn't say that the site has been completed. There is still quite a bit of work to be done with respect to site layout and functionality, but almost all of the blog posts have been ported to the new site. (But not […]
From the Sports Analytics conference site is this article from Sydney's Daily Telegraph about the development of a new performance metric in Australian rugby league and its influence in the outcome of the recently completed National Rugby League season. (more…)
I start off 2012 with a look at an article from 2011 — this piece in the Royal Statistical Society's Getstats campaign by Leeds University professor Bill Gerrard on his experiences as a statistical analyst with professional baseball, soccer, and rugby teams. Gerrard had famously partnered with Billy Beane on some analytics work with the […]
[2012-07-05: This position has been filled. I’m leaving this post on the site for archival purposes. You can find the latest job notices on the Jobs page, and we’re always looking for talent at [email protected].]I’ve been running SRC full-time for almost seven months now. A lot has happened since June 1: I moved cross-country, built […]
I wrote a couple of weeks ago that a new Soccermetrics company website was in development with the intention of having it go live by the 1st of the year. I wanted to bring together the three SRC-related sites under one content management system — company/product/client information, the blog, and the software and document repository, […]
Rob Carroll, who operates a performance analyst site called The Video Analyst, has written a very detailed two-part summary of the Sports Analytics conference that was held in Manchester a couple of weeks ago. Part One is available here and Part Two is here. Highlights of the conference were presentations by Bill Gerrard on evidence-based […]
I decided to open a BigSoccer account last night for the purpose of contributing to the soccer analytics and business forums there. A number of my posts have been linked on BigSoccer forums in the past, but I admit to having a arms-length relationship with Big Soccer for a very long time. There are some […]
