About an hour ago I received the following email from the conference organizers: Thank you for submitting your abstract to the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Conference. Unfortunately we received an overwhelming response and, though your paper was excellent, are unable to invite you to the conference at this time. We anticipate that this will be […]
Before the Christmas/New Year's break, I published a post at my HexagonalBlog site that ran through the numbers for the two-leg format in the first round of the MLS playoffs. The format has come under some criticism since its introduction in the 2003 season, especially for having the higher seed team host the second leg […]
Today is the one-year anniversary of Soccermetrics. It's been a place where I could let my geeky side hang out and explore some interesting questions in the soccer world. I'm always flattered to get readers, but I'm especially pleased to find out about the types of readers this site has attracted over the past year […]
Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey — and Even Iraq — Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport, Nation Books, 2009. [Amazon link]There has been a lot of interest in sports from "the geeks" over […]
