I haven’t written about my software projects in a while, so I’m taking a moment to do so here.My analytics work is supported by data and software written to produce analytical content from them. The software, which I’ve called Marcotti (formerly Football Match Result Database), is a library that creates match databases, loads data into […]
As most of you know, I have a repository on GitHub called ProjectData which stores open data from a variety of soccer analytics projects. Last night I added a folder to store weather data at football matches.Weather has an impact on the outcome of outdoor sporting events such as soccer and all of the football […]
I’m pleased to introduce a new addition to Soccermetrics’ Marcotti family of sport database schemas: Marcotti-MLS.On the field of play, Major League Soccer is similar to other soccer leagues around the world, but it is unique in its organization and operations. For starters, there is a wide range of rules and procedures that govern the […]
Soccermetrics’ Marcotti repository has finally reached an important milestone. The transition of the schema from SQL scripts to Pythonic data models is complete, and a next-generation set of extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tools has been ported successfully from other projects. It’s not a final version, but I feel comfortable with setting a version number at this […]
For the last couple of months, I’ve been updating and modernizing the Marcotti data schemas that Soccermetrics uses to build its match databases. It’s good work, but databases need data to be placed in them, and hopefully in a systematic and reliable way.Over the years, I have written a lot of scripts and modules to […]
Over the last two months, I have been releasing new versions of the data models that support Soccermetrics’ research projects. During these releases, I have written that this was part of a much larger process to share more code, and eventually more data, with the soccer analytics community.In keeping with that process, today I am […]
A little over three years ago — around the time that the MCFC Analytics initiative was being launched — we rolled out a superset of the Football Match Result Database that accommodated the summary statistics of the MCFC Analytics dataset. That database was called FMRD-Summary. We used it on a few projects, most notably an early […]
The modernization of the Soccermetrics data models continues. Early this morning I made a soft release of the Marcotti repository on GitHub, and I’d like to write a few words about that now.Marcotti is a snazzier name for what used to be called FMRD — the Football Match Result Database. This is the original data […]
Last month I gave a progress report on analytics projects and software under development. Today I’m pleased to announce that Marcotti-Light — the light version of Soccermetrics’ match database schemas — has been open-sourced on GitHub.Marcotti-Light is used to create databases that track full-time scorelines in all types of competitions and matches that involve either […]
About a month or so ago on Twitter, I wrote that it was past time for me to provide an update on some ongoing projects. Unfortunately that will have to wait a while as some projects have been submitted as proposals to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and the OptaPro Analytics Forum. I know […]
