The soccer Pythagorean work never stops, does it? I was invited to submit an article to the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports based on the poster that I presented at NCSSORS in October, which I wasn't expecting to be honest. (I thought that journal submissions would be reserved for those who gave oral presentations.) […]
I was trying to decide which league to publish a Pythagorean table for, from the leagues that I have not previously created one. I decided to generate one for the recently concluded Brazilian Serie A as there appears to be more interest in this site from Brazil than there is from Russia or Japan at […]
My research paper did not get accepted for next year's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, but I will be at the conference anyway. I submitted my registration tonight.The conference will be a two-day event (4-5 March), with more panel discussions, an expanded research paper track (with research proceedings!), and a trade show for established businesses and […]
Another article that I found courtesy of Zonal Marking's Twitter feed — the maiden post from a blog called Mindgames that seeks to apply knowledge of sport psychology to English Premier League soccer. This post discusses an academic paper on diving in football — how to spot it, behaviors associated with it, motivations for doing […]
I haven’t written anything about the recent goings-on at Liverpool, but some of the front-office selections — in particular Damien Comolli to the new Directorship of Football Strategy — have implications for the use of soccer analytics at a professional soccer club. It’s been thought that soccer analytics in general and “Moneyball” in particular might […]
Linear regression is one of the powerhouse statistical analysis techniques, and I'm always looking for material that improves my understanding of the approach. Not necessarily the main algorithms, but more so the results and what they mean.So here are a few documents that give a more detailed explanation of linear regression than I've seen so […]
As most of you know, because of my background and training I approach performance analytics in soccer from a more rigorous foundation. (I like doing the back-of-the-envelope stuff as well and manipulating data from various statistical categories, but for many analytics problems that kind of work is no longer sufficient.) To this end, I'm always […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 Italian Serie A, up to the eighth round of league matches (23 October).This completes the Pythagorean tables for the Big Five European leagues at the quarter-mark of the season. If there are any other league tables that you would like to see, please let me know and […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 German Bundesliga after nine rounds of matches (23 October). Standard statements about the Pythagorean calculations apply. League Table Pythagorean Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L Pts Δ Mainz 9 8 0 1 19 8 +11 24 6 2 1 20 […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for La Liga — the Spanish Primera División — through the eighth round of the championship. Standard statements apply. Levante and Sporting Gijón were tied on points and head-to-head tiebreakers, but Sporting had a slight advantage in the Fair Play table, which gave them the higher league placing.And how about […]
