I’ve been banging on the “Hey, let’s model effective match time!” drum for a few posts now, and I’m ready to move on to something else, but I want to present one more extension. You can read some of my previous work in the Match Quality Metrics category of the blog.I want to answer this […]
I see that my posts on match tempo have attracted a lot of attention and comments. Some of them disagree with my approach and/or ask some interesting questions. I don’t have a problem with that — the existence of critical comments indicates that people care enough about what your work to pose them.One comment asked […]
A few weeks ago I wrote my thoughts on match tempo as it is currently defined in soccer. Essentially, the possessions per team metric, one borrowed from basketball, runs into some limitations when applied to football or other invasion sports conducted over a large playing area. This opinion is not a knock on other analysts […]
In my previous post on match tempo, I presented a chart that compared final league position to average possessions per game and average effective time in a match. It was rude of me to introduce a term and not define it, much less discuss it, so I’ll do so now.I’ve been fascinated by the idea […]
