It's been a couple of months since the last such table, but now that we're in the final third of the season it's time to publish a Pythagorean league table for the 2011 Major League Soccer season. The table contains matches played up to last Sunday (14 August), so last night's matches (Philadelphia-Sporting KC and […]
This is the fifth and final part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the previous articles:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart IV: Code releaseNow that my codebase for the FMRD has been made public, this will be the […]
This is the fourth part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the other articles in the series:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsThis is the moment that you — and I — have […]
This is the third part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the other articles in the series:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart IV: Code releasePart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsYesterday I wrote a long article on the origins of the FMRD and the […]
The 2011-12 CONCACAF Champions League has kicked off tonight, and it is time to publish the preseason set of club and country coefficients. 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 seasons, inclusive.First, here is […]
This is the second part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the other articles:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart IV: Code releasePart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsI've looked back at my previous posts on the subject and I realize that I have been […]
This is the first part of what will be a week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the upcoming articles:Part II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart IV: Code releasePart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsI have been very quiet on the Football Match Result Database […]
The Political Economy of Football website has published a list of the top 30 European clubs in attendance of domestic league matches over the past three seasons. It makes for very interesting reading. The top three or four teams are those that you would expect to see, such as Manchester United, Barcelona, and Real Madrid, […]
There was a glowing report in yesterday's Jamaica Observer about the National Premier League's agreement with a sports management company in the USA and the UK to collect player data for an international soccer repository. The site is called SoccerAssociation.com and is operated from the United Kingdom. The article goes on to say that the […]
Last year I presented a scatter plot of goalscoring variances and color-coded the dots by points per game average of the associated teams. There was quite an overlap between regions, but some trends were evident, especially in defensive goal statistics and league performance. I'm going to expand on that previous post and present data in […]
