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Effect of manager turnover on team performance

ter Weel, B., "Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? Evidence from Dutch Soccer, 1996-2004", De Economist, 2001, to appear. [Link]Heuer A, Müller C, Rubner O, Hagemann N, Strauss B "Usefulness of Dismissing and Changing the Coach in Professional Soccer", PLoS ONE, 6(3): e17664, 2011. [Link]These two papers examine the impact of manager turnover on club […]

The effect of artificial surface on Deportivo Saprissa’s home advantage

[This is an expanded post of the one I published on HexagonalBlog today (11 March).  I've now bumped it to the top and added some more analysis to make it a one-parter in the end.]Most people would say that CD Saprissa's artificial turf gives them a significant home advantage.  But Saprissa's stadium has always been […]

On macro-statistics and micro-statistics

When I talk about statistics in soccer, I tend to group them into two different classes.  I’ve even written posts where I have made such distinctions but without much definition.  I’d like to take a step back and discuss what I feel are two important classes of data in soccer: macro-statistics and micro-statistics. (more…)

An Opta look at the top five Euro leagues

Opta compiles a fairly extensive set of in-match statistics in the major European leagues as well as the pan-European club competitions.  They've prepared a comparative survey of in-match performance over a season in the English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German top divisions, as well as the European Champions League.  There are some interesting findings from […]

Are there common features of teams with large Pythagorean variances?

My last post has sparked a question in my soccermetric mind: Are there common features in the offensive and defensive goal distributions for teams with large Pythagorean variances?  The Soccer Pythagorean works well at assessing the level of team performance relative to expectations from their goal statistics.  It can even predict point totals within a […]