First of all, Happy New Year to all our readers! I wish you all a productive, healthy, and happy 2014.I want to continue some work that I was working on last year — 24 hours ago, in fact. In my previous post I conducted a regression analysis of team effects on the amount of time […]
Six months ago I brought up the idea of effective time in football and developed an algorithm to calculate it from a technical/tactical data set (aka touch-by-touch data created by companies such as Opta Sports). It’s not a novel concept — RAI would display such a statistic during their Serie A broadcasts in the […]
I'm using the 2008-09 English Premier League as a test case of the three-parameter Weibull distribution that is the basis of the Pythagorean formula. Below I present the exponent values that I obtained from the least-squares estimation, as well as a few plots that show how the resulting Weibull distribution fit to the score data. […]
As I said in my last post on my extended Pythagorean formula for soccer, I was in the process of compiling score data for the 2008-09 English Premier League season in order to test this formulation. The first step was to fit the data to a Weibull probability distribution in order to estimate the alpha […]
