[Cross-posted at HexagonalBlog]There's still one more match of the CONCACAF Champions League remaining, but I decided not to wait any longer to post the latest CONCACAF club coefficients. I've accounted for matches in the knockout rounds, including the first leg of the final. The second leg won't change the league coefficients that much — it'll […]
The American Statistical Association is hosting its annual Joint Statistical Meeting in Washington DC later this summer, and there will be a few sections devoted to the use of statistics in sports. There will be a plenary speaker, poster presentations, and invited and contributed paper sessions. There are a number of sports covered in the […]
Moschini, GianCarlo, "Nash equilibrium in competitive games: live play in soccer", Economics Letters, 85: 365-371 (2005).This paper uses game theory to model a common soccer scenario: whether to beat a goalkeeper by shooting at the near post or the far post. The author examines goals scored in a Serie A season and determines that this […]
Dave Clark of Sounder at Heart sent me an interesting post he wrote last month in which he attempted to project the number of goals allowed by Sounders 'keeper Kasey Keller over the course of a MLS season. He bases this projection on the goalkeeping statistics from previous seasons (or is it just last season?), […]
I revamped the blogroll and broke them out into separate subjects. I now have links under professional organizations, people (research or practitioners), publications (from scholarly journals to books), research groups, and software. Now that I think of it, I should have another category for databases that will keep soccermetricians from having to reinvent the wheel.So […]
This isn't soccer-related, or soccermetrics-related, but it is math-related. I participated as a volunteer for the Arizona MATHCOUNTS competition this weekend. I've gone full-circle, because I competed in one of the regional competitions in Florida when I was a junior high school student in the late 80s. For those who don't know what it is, […]
A few weeks ago I added a link on the blogroll for Prozone, which is a company that produces a software package that does performance analysis for soccer and other sports. I remember reading something about the company when it was founded, but I didn't remember their initial software being so sophisticated. At any rate, […]
Sorry for the long gap between posts; I've been busy with the start of the CONCACAF Hexagonal on my other websites.The site continues to get some attention and comments, and I'm appreciative for both. I was pointed to some websites that are heavily involved in statistical analysis for soccer, and I've included them in the […]
I found this call for papers at the American Statistical Association (ASA) website:2nd International Conference on Mathematics in SportHampshire Hotel-Plaza, Groningen, Netherlands17-19 June 2009Topics to include: Econometrics in Sport; Competitive strategy; Match outcome models; Decision support systems; Analysis of sporting technologies; Analysis of rules and adjudication; Performance measures and models; Optimisation of sports performance; Mathematics […]
I had meant to comment on Tim Vickery's well-deserved ridicule of the latest IFFHS rankings, but The Run of Play blog posted some comments of their own and provided a link to Vickery's post. The authors divide the current state of soccer statistics into two categories: (1) those that are useless and downright counterproductive (the […]
