Effective playing time at the 2014 FIFA World Cup

Match Quality Metrics, Soccermetrics API

The entrails from the 2014 FIFA World Cup have cooled, and the thoughts of football fans have turned to domestic competitions and the Champions League, but I finally got myself out from maintaining and updating the Soccermetrics API to analyze data from the World Cup. I start with an assessment of effective playing time from […]

Estimating playing time lost due to balls out of play

Match Quality Metrics, Soccermetrics API

Knowing when the ball is out of play (“ball-out” events) in football is important in order to calculate effective playing time and the possession metrics of the two teams. But what do you do when you don’t have ball-out data? In this post I present a calibration tool to estimate match time lost due to […]

Soccermetrics API to go private, no longer accepting signups

Soccermetrics API

Effective immediately, Soccermetrics Connect API is no longer accepting new signups, and effective on 2 September, access to the service will be terminated. (more…)

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Effective playing time at the 2014 FIFA World Cup

Estimating playing time lost due to balls out of play

Soccermetrics API to go private, no longer accepting signups