Simon Harriyott was kind enough to send me a link to his report on the recently concluded Science and Football conference, and you can find his post here. The conference also has a collection of selected presentations on its website.MORE: John Sinnott sent me another link, to a presentation by Darren Burgess of Liverpool FC that […]
Last week I wrote about a proportional allocation scheme for the NCAA basketball tournament, drawing on my experience from developing league coefficients for soccer competitions in North America. I'll apply the scheme to soccer by considering how a similar allocation of "at-large" slots might work for the UEFA Champions League. (more…)
This is a soccer-centric blog, and I am to keep it that way, but I also know that a lot of basketball analysts read this site. With that in mind I am going to write about something basketball related that draws upon my experience with developing league coefficients for CONCACAF club competitions in soccer. It's […]
The Science and Football conference took place in East London yesterday. If any of my readers attended it and would like to write a summary of what happened and their impressions of the conference, I would greatly appreciate your contribution. I can publish your report here (properly attributed, of course) or link to your own […]
[Oh wow, it's a Sounder-lanche! Thanks, guys!]I wanted to take a look at how national teams that form a confederation are distributed through the FIFA World Rankings, which I claim serves as a proxy for the relative strength of the confederations. Ordinal data are taken from the March 2011 FIFA rankings, separated for the six […]
Last year I wrote about the World Congress on Science and Football, a week-long symposium on issues related to science and football. Here, football is used in the broadest sense of the word — soccer is the dominant topic, but there are papers on the other football codes (Australian, Gaelic, American, rugby). The conference is […]
It's a pity that my Amazon book shipment arrived today, because I came across another book that will probably have to read at some point in the future. It is called The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball, written by Sheldon and Alan Hirsch. The title pretty […]
Rob Carroll has come down from the lush green hills of Ireland with his Ten Commandments for performance analysis in sports, and you can read them at his Video Analyst site. I agree with just about all of them, especially #4 and #5. You can measure a lot in sport, but there are some things […]
Ticketing analytics isn't my main focus area, but I wanted to alert people to another sports analytics contest out there. The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania has a program called the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, in which one of their corporate partners shares their dataset and solicits research proposals from the analytics […]
This post is directed toward my British and Irish readers and those who might be able to get to East London in ten days' time.On 27 March there will be a conference called Science and Football to be held at the University of East London, Dockland campus. The scope of the conference is as it […]
