It’s been several years since I’ve last written about the adjusted plus/minus problem in soccer — almost four years ago in fact. I had given a link to early work done by the late Climbing The Ladder blog and referenced a couple of presentations by researchers at conferences (Joe Sill and Wayne Winston), but said […]
Lionel Messi’s 21-match goalscoring streak this La Liga season is the longest seen in domestic football competitions in 75 years (16 matches by Teodor Peterek for Polish side Ruch Chorzów in 1937-38). Whenever streaks in sport are discussed, it’s inevitable that someone — especially if that someone is American — will mention Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game […]
We said at the beginning of May that this month would be quite consequential. We are pleased to introduce player prospect reports for sale on the Soccermetrics site.These reports find their origin in prospect lists that Aaron Nielsen developed as part of his end-of-season reviews for over 60 domestic league competitions in 2012. These lists […]
[This post is based on a research paper that I wrote with Aaron Nielsen and submitted to the MIT SSAC Research Paper competition. It didn’t advance to the final round but we hope that the results are of interest to the analytics community. We’ll continue refining this work throughout the year.]Exec Summary: We perform a […]
My previous post on substitutions at UEFA Euro 2012 drew a comment on Soccermetrics Research’s Facebook page that asked if I could control for the substitute’s position in my analysis. I was curious about the results myself, so here they are. (more…)
I continue my statistical review of UEFA Euro 2012 with a look at the substitution patterns over the duration of the tournament. The analysis is similar to what I did for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. (more…)
I need to make an admission: I dread doing team and player performance analysis for the European Championships. (more…)
How have managers at the Africa Cup of Nations deployed their substitutions during their matches, and have they had their desired impact on the game? I take a look at the match result data to answer the first question and start to answer the second.One caveat that I should state is that the timings of […]
From the Sports Analytics conference site is this article from Sydney's Daily Telegraph about the development of a new performance metric in Australian rugby league and its influence in the outcome of the recently completed National Rugby League season. (more…)
Moneyball, the movie, premieres in Britain this weekend and there will be a private advance screening at Prozone tonight. As part of the advance preparation for the premiere here is an article from the Daily Mail on the impact that Opta and Prozone's data has had on how we understand the Premier League and assess […]
