Radu Tunaru, Ephrahim Clark, and Howard Viney, "An options pricing framework for valuation of football players", Review of Financial Economics, 14: 281-295, 2005.It is important for football club management to know how much their players are worth on the open market. This publication is the first to use concepts from options pricing to develop a […]
L. Szczepanski, "Measuring the effectiveness of strategies and quantifying players' performance in football", International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 8(2): 55-66, 2008. [Link]This paper describes a procedure that estimates the probability of scoring and conceding goals in a match from open or set play in a given sector of the field, by a player […]
Dave Clark of Sounder at Heart sent me an interesting post he wrote last month in which he attempted to project the number of goals allowed by Sounders 'keeper Kasey Keller over the course of a MLS season. He bases this projection on the goalkeeping statistics from previous seasons (or is it just last season?), […]
