[This is the third and final part of my perspectives on Soccermetrics on its 5th anniversary.]As I said at the end of part two, football analytics haven’t stood still over the last two years. In fact, a lot of people have gotten involved from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. I’ve heard about some of […]
[This is the second part of my perspectives on Soccermetrics on its 5th anniversary.]While I was expanding from writing about other people’s research in soccer analytics to conducting my own, events were occurring on a backdrop of a Soccermetrics’ transition from a blog to something more formal. I attended the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference […]
[This is the first of a three-part series on my perspectives on Soccermetrics on its 5th anniversary.]On 8 January 2009, I started Soccermetrics in order to “consider problems in applied mathematics and statistics that have applications toward a better understanding of soccer.” This month will mark not just the fifth anniversary of the site, but […]
These are the show notes for Episode #8 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with featured guest Zach Slaton of Forbes.com. This interview was recorded on 11 January 2014 from the Atlanta office.Zach is an engineer by training and the proprietor of the soccer analytics blog A Beautiful Numbers Game. He has since worked for the last two years […]
I’ve been banging on the “Hey, let’s model effective match time!” drum for a few posts now, and I’m ready to move on to something else, but I want to present one more extension. You can read some of my previous work in the Match Quality Metrics category of the blog.I want to answer this […]
In my previous post on the subject I applied the mean centering technique to the regression that I ran on effective time data in the 2010-11 English Premier League. I’ve been working with J-League data from this recently concluded season, so let’s refine that analysis for completeness sake.If you’re just joining us, the regression analysis […]
First of all, Happy New Year to all our readers! I wish you all a productive, healthy, and happy 2014.I want to continue some work that I was working on last year — 24 hours ago, in fact. In my previous post I conducted a regression analysis of team effects on the amount of time […]
