Most people would answer "yes" to the above question, but as this article in the British Plus magazine indicates, the answer is not as apparent as it seems. In fact, there is a substantial amount of uncertainty as far as the true underlying quality of the team is concerned. The article is a couple of […]
With the group stage having concluded, it is now time to update the CONCACAF club and league coefficients. For those of you not previously aware of the coefficients, you can find an explanation at my HexagonalBlog site. These are coefficients tabulated over the last five seasons, including the current one.First, here is the league coefficient […]
My work on the soccer Pythagorean is almost done, but there were a couple of trade studies that I wanted to complete before I tied a bow around everything. There were two questions that I wanted to address: Is there a "universal" Pythagorean league exponent, one that applies over all leagues? How do league Pythagorean […]
I sent out a tweet about this announcement last week, but I have been a little late in reporting this on the blog due to my trip to the Bay Area. If you were thinking about writing a conference paper for the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in March, THERE IS STILL TIME! The conference extended […]
This weekend I traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in the Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports (NCSSORS) at Menlo College in Menlo Park. This symposium is the West Coast counterpart to the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports (NESSIS), which takes place every odd year at […]
The NCSSORS meeting is now over, and it turned out to be better than I thought it would be. Yes, I had the only soccer-related poster, and no, there were no soccer officials at the meeting, but it was very valuable to trade information and insights with the basketball and baseball analysts. In the end, […]
I've been in my hotel room crunching the last set of numbers and generating plots for my poster presentation at NCSSORS tomorrow, when I came across a most interesting piece of information from the Pythagorean table for the 2009 MLS regular season. (And by the way, there are a number of errors in the large […]
It's time for me to pack up my laptop along with my belongings and head to San Francisco (Menlo Park, actually) for NCSSORS — the Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports. I will be presenting a poster on my work with the soccer Pythagorean estimation, and I will be one of […]
There are a couple of dates when I will be posting new data to this site.The first has to do with the latest set of CONCACAF league/club coefficients. Those will be posted after the final round of group matches on 20 October. I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but I plan on […]
At the end, I decided not to submit a paper to the 2011 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. I had a paper idea in mind, but I wasn't able to get much progress in time to write a decent abstract, and I was struggling over whether it made enough of a contribution to present at this […]
