I've been quiet over the past week, but I've been busy with debugging the implementation of my database and completing its documentation. I've reached a point where I've verified the integrity of the tables and can say that the database design is close enough to a "release" version — version 1.0. It's been a long […]
I've been getting a lot of traffic from sonicscentral.com, which I thought was yet another website from the Seattle area sending me lots of love. I took a closer look and realized that it's APBRmetrics, which is one of the major basketball analytics websites. Someone asked for sites that were doing analytics-related work for soccer […]
This is a busy week for everyone doing analytics work. People are rushing to complete their final analyses of the 32 finalists, make tournament predictions, and whatever software tools they need to carry out their tasks. Here is what I'm working on this week: Debugging the data entry forms that implement the Football Match Result […]
[Also posted at my other site, HexagonalBlog.]I think it might be a good idea to look at previous World Cups and find out how the hosts fared in their opening matches. Here's the full list, with the hosts listed first:1930: Uruguay 1-0 Peru1934: Italy 7-1 USA1938: France 3-1 Belgium1950: Brazil 4-0 Mexico1954: Switzerland 2-1 Italy1958: […]
We're approaching the World Cup break in Major League Soccer, so it's a good time to take another look at the Pythagorean projections for the league. Once again I've kept the conferences apart and used the standard Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 to calculate the predicted points. Just as before, almost all of the teams have […]
Over the last three days I've made significant progress on the implementation of my database design. I have used OpenOffice Base 3.0 to build the database and the entry forms, and after much effort I was able to design forms that could load all of the major tables of the database. It was a very […]
"Statistics are extremely meaningful, if you know how to analyze them."-John Wooden (RIP)
I learned about this iPhone app from ZonalMarking.com's Twitter feed this morning, and it appears to be very interesting. It is called Total Football 2010 and it uses Opta data feeds to create graphical views of player and team performance in a match. The plan is to update the performance live during the match so […]
I came across the following conference thanks to Kevin Goodfellow of Sports Data Hub: the Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports, to be held at Menlo College in Atherton (between Palo Alto and Redwood City) on October 16. The conference page looks a little bare, but I'm sure it will fill […]
When I talk about statistics in soccer, I tend to group them into two different classes. I’ve even written posts where I have made such distinctions but without much definition. I’d like to take a step back and discuss what I feel are two important classes of data in soccer: macro-statistics and micro-statistics. (more…)
