With the conclusion of the 2011-12 CONCACAF Champions League group stage, it is time to publish a new set of club and country coefficients for the region. For those new to the site and unaware of how the coefficients work, here is an explanation of my methodology. These are coefficients calculated over the last five […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 German Fußball-Bundesliga season, for matches played up to 16 October 2011. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.Bayern Munich's 1-0 home loss to Borussia Mönchengladbach has been the difference in the Pythagorean residuals of both teams. Bayern should be running away with the league. Hannover […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 Spanish Primera División season, for matches played up to 16 October 2011. The standard Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used to calculate the estimations.For all of the talk about Barça's impressive start to the season, they have actually underperformed a bit; that 2-2 draw against Real Sociedad […]
Weston, M. et. al. (2006) "The effect of match standard and referee experience upon the objective and subjective match workload of English Premier League referees", Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 9 (3): 256-262. [Citation|PDF]Mallo, J. et al. (2009) "Physical demands of top-class soccer assistant refereeing during high-standard matches", International Journal of Sports Medicine, […]
Last week I attended the Leaders in Performance conference, hosted by Chelsea Football Club at Stamford Bridge. The conference is part of the Leaders conferences that are co-located at Chelsea — the others focusing on football, sponsorship, digital sport, and horseracing — and is one of the two conferences that occur over two days (Leaders […]
So today is my birthday, and what do I get to do today? Pack my bags and fly out to London for the Leaders in Performance conference at Chelsea FC. I'm excited to find out what the conference is all about and determine the receptivity of the major football clubs to more analytical and systematic […]
My talk entitled "Entrepreneurship and Soccer Analytics" that I gave at Florida State's Sports Management Conference is now available here as a PDF. It will also be available on the public FTP site of Soccermetrics Research & Consulting in the Presentations folder.My thanks to Dr. Ryan Rodenberg for extending the invitation to present. It was a […]
On Friday I will give a presentation at the 13th Sports Management Conference hosted by Florida State University's Sports Management program. My talk is entitled "Entrepreneurship and Soccer Analytics", which isn't the best title that I could come up with but nevertheless covers the scope of my presentation. I will talk about the motivation for […]
This afternoon I watched Moneyball at a theater in midtown Atlanta. I was looking forward to watching the movie not just because I had read the book, but also because I lived in the Bay Area during 2001-02 when the Oakland A's were one of the best teams in Major League Baseball. So I remember […]
B. Gerrard, "Is the Moneyball Approach Transferable to Complex Invasion Team Sports?", International Journal of Sport Finance, 2: 214-230, 2007. [Citation]This paper analyzes reasons for the success of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics as described in the best-seller Moneyball using a benchmarking technique and investigates the development of a knowledge-based strategy in conjunction with systematic […]
