I have been looking for reports on the business model of football clubs in South America for some time, in particular the larger (in an economic sense) South American nations such as Brazil, Mexico, or Chile. Jérôme Osselaer has written a detailed analysis on the financial model of Brazilian clubs ranging from profit and loss […]
P. Antonioni and J. Cubbin, "The Bosman Ruling and the emergence of a single market in soccer talent", European Journal of Law and Economics, 9(2): 157-73, 2000.This paper discusses the effect of the Bosman Ruling on the nature of contracts between club and player under the modeling framework of options pricing theory. It uses the […]
If you've been following me on Twitter, you would have seen my tweets chronicling my move from Tucson to the Atlanta area. I am happy to announce that I arrived in Atlanta Saturday afternoon after three and a half days and more than 1,700 miles on the road. My furniture hasn't arrived yet, and I'm […]
The organizers of the recently concluded World Congress on Science and Football have set up a YouTube channel on which you can view oral presentations from the conference. I have not verified this, but it looks like all of the presentations have been videotaped, so you can cross-reference them against the final program to find […]
Simon Kuper, the co-writer of Soccernomics, has written a comprehensive piece in this weekend's Financial Times on the growth of the use of statistical analysis in football. The article focuses on English soccer, primarily because it is the one soccer league that has demonstrated a willingness to use numbers in their match planning and player […]
I noticed an uptick in my visitor logs from the Red Cafe website, which is a forum for Manchester United supporters. This is the post that drew in today's visits, and here is another post on the forum (that one by Rational Football's "letranger0") that referenced this site. To all of you visiting, welcome! And […]
ter Weel, B., "Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? Evidence from Dutch Soccer, 1996-2004", De Economist, 2001, to appear. [Link]Heuer A, Müller C, Rubner O, Hagemann N, Strauss B "Usefulness of Dismissing and Changing the Coach in Professional Soccer", PLoS ONE, 6(3): e17664, 2011. [Link]These two papers examine the impact of manager turnover on club […]
The ideas of goal weighting and goal utility have attracted attention from many quarters in the soccer analytics community. One example is the excellent 11tegen11 blog which presents an implementation of the weighted goals metric to the Dutch Eredivisie. A couple differences between his metric and mine are that he uses the idea of "expected […]
I promised some of my Spanish readers that I would post this, and I'm finally able to do it now.Below is the final Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 Spanish Segunda División, whose regular season concluded last weekend. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70.The league Pythagorean confirms Betis' deserved promotion based on their performance throughout the […]
It's taken a while to reach this point, but all of the MLS teams have played enough matches to make a Pythagorean table meaningful. Here is such a table for the 2011 MLS regular season for matches played up to today (12 June). As always, the league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. Draw and loss columns […]
