Last year I wrote a series of posts on effective playing time in the top two J-League divisions at the mid-season and end-of-season marks. Further analysis of the numbers using an admittedly crude regression model indicated that some clubs have a significantly greater effect on the amount of playing time than others, for better or […]
One of the features of Soccermetrics in the early days of the website has been “Paper Discussions“, in which I discuss research articles that investigate quantitative analysis problems related to soccer. Some of them were classic papers in the field, while others were recently published. There were even some researchers who went out of their […]
Interesting news from OptaPro — Opta Sports’ professional services arm — that player tracking data from English Premier League matches will be made available to successful proposals to their Analytics Forum next year. The data comes from Opta’s partner Tracab, which uses their image-tracking technology to generate 3D sports data for media customers (they are […]
If you’ve been following Soccermetrics on Twitter this week, you would have seen infographics on the Front-Office Efficiencies of all nineteen Major League Soccer teams. You could have worked out the ranking yourself, but if not, below is the full infographic for posterity.For those who want to understand how I did it, here is this […]
If you’ve been following me on Twitter (and you really should), I’ve been posting graphics of MLS Front-Office Efficiency figures for every club in the league. I have made major changes to the formulation this year, and at any rate there are newcomers to this site all the time, so I will present Version 3 […]
I have been attending the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference since 2010, right at the time that the Conference was transitioning from an intimate meeting of professional sports insiders and academics to a slick and polished cultural event. As happens every year at this time, I receive notifications from the organizers of the conference that encourage […]
I’ve been working on front-office efficiency figures for Major League Soccer in 2014, and while I’ve been putting those results together I wanted to see what kind of information could be shown with the data that I have. One idea that came to mind was to take minutes played data of MLS players in the […]
The OptaPro Analytics Forum has returned for a second year in 2015, and has issued a call for proposals. (more…)
The 2014 Major League Soccer regular season concluded a week and a half ago. It’s time to look back at the projections made at the start of the season and assess them.Here is what we projected at the beginning of the season – first by conference:And then the single table:The final league table finished like this […]
The Joint Mathematics Meeting is the major mathematics conference in the USA, taking place in early January and organized by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America and a few other technical organizations. Among the many sessions at the JMM is one on Mathematics and Sports, which returns for another year. (I don’t […]
