In my post a couple of weeks back on adjusted plus/minus, I said that I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of zeroing out the appearance index for players who were sent off in a football match, but hadn’t come up with a suitable alternative.  I’ve arrived upon an alternative now, so I’ll update the model […]

In my previous post on the adjusted plus/minus (APM) metric I displayed the top and bottom twenty in terms of that number.  The post was way too long to hold the full list, so I’m going to display it here.I also decided to employ a cutoff for the amount of playing time required to have […]

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 […]