It’s been several years since I’ve last written about the adjusted plus/minus problem in soccer — almost four years ago in fact. I had given a link to early work done by the late Climbing The Ladder blog and referenced a couple of presentations by researchers at conferences (Joe Sill and Wayne Winston), but said […]
The Soccer Analytics panel at the 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Conference is a colossal waste of attendees’ time and should never return in its present form.It’s taken a while for me to reach this point. I’m not pleased to reach this point. I know half of the panelists on this year’s panel. I knew all […]
Welcome to the 2014 Soccer Analytics Panel at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. The panel is about to start, so let’s go!Sorry, my liveblog tools have decided not to work…paraphrasing panelist comments.Steven Houston (Hamburg) talking about the growth in analytics over last 12 months. Especially from outside clubs (analysts, bloggers, media) and moving insideJim […]
This is the fourth year of a dedicated Soccer Analytics panel at the SSAC, and the fifth time that a panel has discussed soccer at the conference (in 2010, it was lumped with American football in an Emerging Analytics session). The session has experienced a variety of participants since 2011, but with two exceptions — […]
It is time for the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and I am pleased to announce the return of a most recent tradition: the pre-SSAC Soccer Analytics Meetup.Here are the details: Thursday 27 February 7pm – ? McGreevy’s Boston 911 Boylston St., Boston 02115 Grab a beer, a bite to eat, make a friend, and […]
It’s been several months since we last posted updates on the Soccermetrics API to the blog. Not to say that there haven’t been updates — quite a lot, in fact — it’s just that we’ve chosen to reveal those changes through the API documentation pages. But we’ve introduced a pair of changes that are quite […]
These are the show notes for Episode #10 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with guest Oliver Page. This interview was recorded on 21 February 2014 from my Atlanta office.Oliver Page is a sports trader with experience at a number of firms in the United Kingdom and interests in applying academic research and mathematical concepts to sports statistics […]
These are the show notes for Episode #9 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with guests Simon Farrant and Devin Pleuler of OptaPro. This interview was recorded on 7 February 2014 from Opta Sports headquarters in central London.I was in London to attend the first OptaPro Analytics Forum, which brought together football analytics researchers who made use […]
Last week I had the privilege of attending the OptaPro Analytics Forum in London. It was organized by OptaPro, Opta Sports’ professional services organization, with the objective of bringing together in one room a select group of football analytics researchers and performance analysts and other officials from the professional football clubs which use Opta data […]
I do have a technical post that I’m trying to finish tonight, but I wanted to post this message before I forget it.I mentioned on Twitter a few weeks ago, but I wanted to repeat on the site that I will be attending the Opta Analytics Forum in London on Thursday. My travel plans are […]
