Billy Beane, as some of you know, is the GM of the Oakland A's and the inspiration behind Michael Lewis' book, Moneyball. Bill Gerrard is a professor of Sport Management and Finance at the Leeds University Business School and has been collaborating with Beane on extensions of the Moneyball approach to soccer.I was trawling the […]
Benoit Emonet, "Revisiting Statistical Applications in Soccer", STS Report, Department of Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 2000. [PDF] (more…)
I have a blogroll devoted to research groups at universities that have projects related to soccermetrics. At this time I have a link to ISSIA in Italy, but I expect to populate that list in the near future. If you are doing work in this area and would like to be listed here, please let […]
Marco Leo, Nicola Mosca, Paolo Spagnolo, Pierluigi Mazzeo, Tiaziana D'Orazio, and Arcangelo Distante, "Real-time multiview analysis of soccer matches for understanding interactions between ball and players", presented at 2008 International Conference on Content-based Image and Video Retrieval, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, pp. 525-534.For my review, read on. Comments welcome. (more…)
A couple of things that I doubt anyone will care about, but will state nonetheless.(1) I haven't decided what categories to use for my posts. There are general subject areas in mathematics or statistics that these posts will belong to, but also be applied to certain stats/measurements in soccer (team metrics, league metrics, player metrics). […]
I see that this blog has already received mentions on BigSoccer and rec.sports.soccer. It's been ages since I've been on r.s.s., but I know there were more than a few mathematics experts/researchers who posted from time to time, so hopefully they will able to contribute to the discussions over here.Thanks for the attention, and I […]
One application that I didn't mention in applied mathematics problems for soccer is the gaming industry. Betting decisions and devising odds are two examples. To this end, here is a simulation of match results at the 2006 World Cup using a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. I'm traveling from Florida to Arizona tomorrow so […]
This was a post I wrote on my primary blog, and I’m reproducing it here.————–A couple of years ago I read Michael Lewis’ Moneyball, which is an excellent book on the 2002 Oakland Athletics and the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that assembled that team. I was living in the Bay Area when the A’s went on their […]
This is a new blog called Soccermetrics. The objective of this blog is to consider problems in applied mathematics and statistics that have applications toward a better understanding of soccer. These applications range from a macro level (team performance, comparative performance of national leagues) to a micro level (player performance and evaluation, influence of formations/strategies, […]
