I came across the following conference thanks to Kevin Goodfellow of Sports Data Hub: the Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports, to be held at Menlo College in Atherton (between Palo Alto and Redwood City) on October 16. The conference page looks a little bare, but I'm sure it will fill […]
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…)
This has been true for some time now, but the papers from the technical paper contest at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference are now available. You can find them at their site.If you go to the front page of the conference site, you can also find videos of the panel discussions. I think the […]
Today has been a very special day for me. I received the Articles of Organization from my lawyer this morning, and as of yesterday my sole proprietorship is now Soccermetrics Research & Consulting, LLC. A lot has happened on the business and technical side since January; I've appeared at the big sports analytics conference in […]
And now, to complete the Pythagorean tables for the top five European leagues. Here is the final table for Serie A: Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Internazionale 38 75 34 82 77 +5 Roma 38 68 41 80 69 +11 Milan 38 60 39 70 66 +4 Sampdoria 38 49 41 67 57 […]
Here's the final Pythagorean table for the French league. It might be useful to compare this table to a similar one taken at the halfway mark of the season. Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Marseille 38 69 36 78 73 +5 Lyon 38 64 38 72 69 +3 Auxerre 38 42 29 71 […]
To continue the Opta mini-theme, here is a video that explains how they compile their match statistics and how they are preparing for the World Cup this summer. (I tried to embed it into this post, but it wouldn't work for me.) One thing that struck me when viewing that video was how labor-intensive the […]
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 […]
And now for something that is not Soccer Pythagorean related…Billy Beane, the subject of the book that spawned the field of sports analytics, will appear at the Leaders in Performance conference in London in October. He will give one of the keynote speeches to the conference which will consist of close to 300 coaches, managers, […]
Once you start, it's hard to stop…Here are the Pythagorean expectations for La Liga. I'm curious to see how it handles the hugely lopsided scoring records of Real Madrid and Barcelona. Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Barcelona 38 98 24 99 92 +7 Real Madrid 38 102 35 96 86 +10 Valencia 38 […]
