Gavin Fleig is the head of the Performance Analysis Department at Manchester City Football Club, the newest champions of the English Premier League.  I’ve known Gavin since we met at the 2011 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and he was always a natural choice for an interview, but City’s league triumph was the perfect moment.  […]

Nathaniel Boyden is part of a select group of people who have played professional sport and conducted high quality academic research.  (more…)

Erik van den Berg is a recently graduated Economics student from Rotterdam who wrote a fantastic thesis on transfer leagues in soccer.  I read the paper at around the same time that I was thinking about publishing a newsletter, and I knew right then that Erik would be a perfect first interview. (more…)

The centerpiece of the Soccermetrics Newsletter is an in-depth interview with researchers, thought leaders, and practitioners in soccer analytics.  The interviews have been a great experience as they provide a view of the current state of analytics from a variety of perspectives, and they have given me an opportunity to get to know some really […]