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 […]
My previous post on substitutions at UEFA Euro 2012 drew a comment on Soccermetrics Research’s Facebook page that asked if I could control for the substitute’s position in my analysis. I was curious about the results myself, so here they are. (more…)
I've been busy with work and then travel over the past two days, but tonight I was able to get to work on a list of tables and fields that I think would be relevant for a soccer match database. There might be other fields that other users would put in for other competitions, but […]
