Well, I've had some more time to digest the news about my paper submission.  I'm not happy about the final outcome; I thought (like any other submitter) that other people might be interested in what I would be presenting.  It doesn't always work out that way, for a variety of reasons (paper not good enough, not the right audience, an outsider — that last item occurs more than you think), but it's part of life at these conferences, especially one that has a paper session for the first time.

At any rate, I'm shaking off my initial disappointment and moving forward.  The soccer Pythagorean study, the publication and its results, will be posted here by the end of the week.  There are some other posts on other topics that I will post in the following days, as well as what I hope will be the start of a discussion on what makes a good statistic for soccer.  There may be some other announcements in the coming months but I can't give much details at this time.

What I can tell you is that I will attend the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.  Even though I won't be presenting, I believe it would be an excellent opportunity to meet some leading figures in the world of sport who are actively working on analytics, and most importantly get some networking opportunities with those who work in performance analysis in soccer.   There will definitely be multiple posts on my conference experience in March. 

Finally, my sincere thanks to Dave, Aditya, Eric, and Axel for their assistance with data collection for the soccer Pythagorean work.  I wish I had some way to compensate you for your work, but I don't.  At least not yet.