Bill Gerrard, “Analysing Sporting Efficiency Using Standardised Win Cost: Evidence from the FA Premier League, 1995-2007”, International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 5(1): 13-35, 2010. [Citation]Summary: This study proposes the use of standardised win cost as a simple and transparent measure of sporting efficiency in professional team sports. Standardised win cost measures the ratio of […]
Bill Gerrard is someone who I’ve wanted to meet since I started Soccermetrics. Prof. Gerrard is a pioneer in statistical performance analysis in sport and a leader in bringing an evidence-based approach to coaching in football, rugby league and rugby union. Perhaps he’s better known in North America for his work with Billy Beane of […]
The subject of this post is something that I’ve been thinking about for a while, but wasn’t motivated to write something until I read that Paul Gardner anti-analytics piece in Soccer America. (I referenced it in the SRC Newsletter, which you really should subscribe to if you haven’t already.) Here’s the final paragraph:——- To sum up: until […]
