Last season I wrote a few articles on referee performance metrics in Argentina’s Primera División. This season I present the same thing for the first half of the re-branded Superliga.The referee-associated metrics that I have collected for each match include yellow/red cards, penalties given, time added on at end of first and second halves, mean […]
The 2017/18 Argentine Superliga is now in its summer/holiday break, which is much shorter than the summer breaks in the past. (The league competition restarts on January 28.) It’s a convenient moment to take a look at the performance of the managers in the current tournament.There have been 41 different managers in the Superliga, of […]
The 2017 Major League Soccer regular season ended six weeks ago (and the playoffs ended this past weekend!), so it’s time for a new edition of the Front-Office Efficiency table. As was the case last year, this table is displayed as an infographic on the Soccermetrics SlideShare page and as twenty-two individual panels on the Soccermetrics […]
In my previous post on Mexico’s playoff system (the Liguilla), I wrote about the percentage of playoff seeds that advanced to the latter stages of the tournament as a function of the criteria for deciding series winners. In this post I’ll analyze the effect of the first-leg result — and the playoff format — on […]
I’ve written about the two-leg format for knockout/playoff matches in soccer on multiple occasions. Most of my writing has focused on the UEFA Champions League and Major League Soccer, but in this post I’ll write about a North American domestic league that has a long experience with playoffs and the two-leg system: the Mexican League. […]
[This is the start of a new series on Soccermetrics that I’m calling Data Deep Dives. The idea is to take a featured match for which I have event or positional data and write a match review that incorporates analytics, video clips, and prose. It’s a work in progress as the analyses evolve and expand […]
There have been reports this week from Argentina and here in Atlanta that Newell’s Old Boys defender Franco Escobar could be on his way to MLS side Atlanta United. The reports claim that the negotiations are at varying stages of development, but they all indicate that Escobar is more likely to join the team than […]
We’re now four rounds into Argentina’s newly-branded Superliga competition, which is a little premature to predict a champion (although there are some candidates) but not so much for seeing some managerial changes (three changes at San Lorenzo, Estudiantes, and most recently Defensa y Justicia). Furthermore, some storylines are starting to emerge from the opening matchdays: […]
I haven’t written about my software projects in a while, so I’m taking a moment to do so here.My analytics work is supported by data and software written to produce analytical content from them. The software, which I’ve called Marcotti (formerly Football Match Result Database), is a library that creates match databases, loads data into […]
Continuing from my previous post, here is the list of expected saves and goals allowed for all the teams in Argentina’s Primera División 2016-17. Own goals have been ignored, but penalties have not. There may be some discrepancies between the total shots on goal as calculated by DataFactory and by me.The total expected goals allowed […]
