The subject of this post is something that I’ve been thinking about for a while, but wasn’t motivated to write something until I read that Paul Gardner anti-analytics piece in Soccer America. (I referenced it in the SRC Newsletter, which you really should subscribe to if you haven’t already.) Here’s the final paragraph:——- To sum up: until […]
From the Sports Analytics conference site is this article from Sydney's Daily Telegraph about the development of a new performance metric in Australian rugby league and its influence in the outcome of the recently completed National Rugby League season. (more…)
I start off 2012 with a look at an article from 2011 — this piece in the Royal Statistical Society's Getstats campaign by Leeds University professor Bill Gerrard on his experiences as a statistical analyst with professional baseball, soccer, and rugby teams. Gerrard had famously partnered with Billy Beane on some analytics work with the […]
(This blog has been written entirely in English, but if my English-speaking readers will indulge me, I'm going to write the rest of this post in Spanish.)En los últimos años, había sido una interés cada vez mayor en usar métodos cuantificativos para analizar el juego tanto individual como colectivo en el fútbol, y también evaluar […]
Over the last couple of days I read a pair of articles that followed on some previous posts of mine. I retweeted one, but I haven't mentioned the other until now.The first is the conversation that Moneyball writer Michael Lewis and Billy Beane had about the book, the movie, and the state of analytics in […]
I've blogged on a couple of occasions about the issue of in-match data in soccer that is collected by sports data companies and considered proprietary information. It presents a complication in soccer analytics because of the traditional lack of statistics surrounding the game. American sports have more historical team and player data of individual matches than […]
This afternoon I watched Moneyball at a theater in midtown Atlanta. I was looking forward to watching the movie not just because I had read the book, but also because I lived in the Bay Area during 2001-02 when the Oakland A's were one of the best teams in Major League Baseball. So I remember […]
B. Gerrard, "Is the Moneyball Approach Transferable to Complex Invasion Team Sports?", International Journal of Sport Finance, 2: 214-230, 2007. [Citation]This paper analyzes reasons for the success of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics as described in the best-seller Moneyball using a benchmarking technique and investigates the development of a knowledge-based strategy in conjunction with systematic […]
A few days ago, the Performance Analysis group at Manchester City Football Club released a pair of videos that demonstrate the role that analysis has in player development, match preparation, and match analysis. The first video looks at the use of performance analysis for opposition scouting and youth development, and the second video describes its […]
At the Dutch football site 11tegen11 (11 on 11) there is an extended discussion on possession analysis in football and its evolution over the years. The motivating principle is a simple one — if you don't have the ball you can't score, to paraphrase Johan Cruyff. But assessing the likelihood of scoring goals and winning […]
