(This blog has been written entirely in English, but if my English-speaking readers will indulge me, I'm going to write the rest of this post in Spanish.)En los últimos años, había sido una interés cada vez mayor en usar métodos cuantificativos para analizar el juego tanto individual como colectivo en el fútbol, y también evaluar […]
Moneyball, the movie, premieres in Britain this weekend and there will be a private advance screening at Prozone tonight. As part of the advance preparation for the premiere here is an article from the Daily Mail on the impact that Opta and Prozone's data has had on how we understand the Premier League and assess […]
I mentioned on Twitter earlier this week that there were some changes coming to Soccermetrics on the company side. Multiple things are happening in parallel, but one of those that I can announce at this time is a new website for Soccermetrics Research & Consulting. When I launched the company on a full-time basis five months […]
Over the last couple of days I read a pair of articles that followed on some previous posts of mine. I retweeted one, but I haven't mentioned the other until now.The first is the conversation that Moneyball writer Michael Lewis and Billy Beane had about the book, the movie, and the state of analytics in […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 Italian Serie A season, for matches played up to 6 November 2011. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used. The Italian league started late due to a player's strike, so I held off on publishing these results until the season reached the quarter-mark.Keep in mind […]
There is an informative interview on the Beyond the Pitch website with John Coulson and Duncan Alexander of Opta Sports about the collection of data in football and its growing use in the sport. Anto (the host), John, and Duncan talk for about 30 minutes on Opta's growth in the football industry, its data collection […]
I've blogged on a couple of occasions about the issue of in-match data in soccer that is collected by sports data companies and considered proprietary information. It presents a complication in soccer analytics because of the traditional lack of statistics surrounding the game. American sports have more historical team and player data of individual matches than […]
Last month, Ben Alamar, who founded the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports eight years ago, announced that he would be transferring the editorship of the journal to Jim Albert, professor of mathematics and statistics at Bowling Green State University. Ben started the journal at a time when the field of sport statistics was in […]
Continuing my look at the finances and on-field results of Major League Soccer, I expand my earlier financial determinism study to the period between 2007 and 2011. This period covers the entire Designated Player era. (more…)
I was looking for other publications that explored the connection between payroll and performance in other American team sports, and came across this interesting series of articles by ESPN's Patrick Hruby published at the beginning of the year on front-office efficiency in American sports leagues. He covers the Big Four sports leagues as well as […]
