This post is the first of a multi-part series that describes the tables of the FMRD-Summary schema. As the name suggests, this schema is derived from the Football Match Result Database, so I will show which FMRD tables have been retained. A more detailed description is in the FMRD-Summary wiki page. (more…)
The ‘lite’ dataset released by the MCFC Analytics project last weekend is a massive dump of almost 200 summary in-match metrics for every player who participated in every match of the 2011-12 English Premier League — more than 10,000 records and 2 million data cells. We set out to convert that dataset into something more […]
A few hours have passed since my initial post in reaction to the ‘basic’ dataset released by Man City’s performance analysis department, and I have some further comments. (more…)
Like many of the visitors to this site, I eagerly awaited the release of the MCFC Analytics dataset. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me, but I’ll just get to the point and say it: the basic dataset that MCFC and Opta have released is simply not good enough. (more…)
Manchester City Football Club have launched an exciting initiative in which they have released the full set of 2011-12 Premier League touch-by-touch data compiled by Opta Sports. This initiative creates an opportunity to support the development of new team and player performance metrics in football, but also creates challenges in modeling a very rich in-match […]
Manchester City’s MCFC Analytics page is now online, and thousands of people are signing up to receive access to Opta’s on-ball data for the 2011-12 Premier League. But what will users be receiving? This post gives a hopefully not-too-technical description of the data. (more…)
Earlier this summer, we had a unique opportunity to interview Gavin Fleig and gain insights on his opinions in soccer analysis. Here’s part one and part two of that interview.Today, Gavin is cementing his position as one of the leaders in the soccer analytics industry by releasing the entire portfolio of data for Manchester City’s […]
If you have been following my Twitter feed over the last ten days, I’ve been building a match result database for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations using my Football Match Result Database schema. I wanted to test my designs in the field, so to speak, using a competition that would exercise almost all of […]
I have set up a FTP site that will store the executable files related to Soccermetrics' open-source development projects. It's become very clear to me that Github, while an excellent code repository host, is not the best option for storing binary files. It will become even more unwieldy as I create branches from the main […]
This is the fifth and final part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project. Here are the previous articles:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart IV: Code releaseNow that my codebase for the FMRD has been made public, this will be the […]
