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 […]
Six months ago I brought up the idea of effective time in football and developed an algorithm to calculate it from a technical/tactical data set (aka touch-by-touch data created by companies such as Opta Sports). It’s not a novel concept — RAI would display such a statistic during their Serie A broadcasts in the […]
I’ve been performing some descriptive analysis of the effective playing time in J-League Division One (J1) and Division Two (J2) at the mid-season and end-of-season points. On average, the typical J1 match has about three minutes more playing time than a match in J2, and the effective time in the top flight is comparable to […]
Back in July I wrote about the variations in effective match time in Divisions 1 and 2 of the J-League — the professional leagues of Japanese club football. The J-League has taken a keen interest in measuring effective time as part of their Plus Quality initiative to identify and minimize those events in a football […]
These are the show notes for Episode #7 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, recorded on 6 December 2013 from the Atlanta office. This episode is a panel discussion of the 2014 World Cup Finals draw which occurred the same day.Joining me on the panel are Albert Larcada, Bobby McMahon, and Axel Torres. Albert Larcada works in […]
The final 32 teams have been drawn from their bowls, and we now know the first 48 matchups in the 2014 World Cup finals. Who got a fortunate draw? Who received a bad break? How will Brazil’s geography and weather affect the outcome of the groups? And what insights do the numbers provide about each […]
These are the show notes for Episode #6 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with featured guest Dr Geir Jordet of the Norwegian Centre of Football Excellence. This interview was recorded on 12 November 2013 from the Atlanta office.Dr Jordet is a professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and the head of the Psychology division […]
