Lanzo un nuevo proyecto para coleccionar datos del fútbol — en este caso, todos los tiros de cabeza que ejecutan en la Primera División Argentina, de temporada 2016-17. Se encuentran los archivos en el repositorio ProjectData de GitHub.En la segunda mitad de 2016 Soccermetrics entró en un acuerdo con DataFactory para crear contenido analítico acerca del […]
A couple of weeks ago I placed a new data archive in Soccermetrics’ ProjectData repository on GitHub, but I haven’t found time to mention it until now. I’m looking to identify all headed shots in Argentina’s Primera División this season, and I’ll explain why.I’ve been working with data from DataFactory for Argentina’s Primera and the Copa Sudamericana […]
As most of you know, I have a repository on GitHub called ProjectData which stores open data from a variety of soccer analytics projects. Last night I added a folder to store weather data at football matches.Weather has an impact on the outcome of outdoor sporting events such as soccer and all of the football […]
A few hours have passed since my initial post in reaction to the ‘basic’ dataset released by Man City’s performance analysis department, and I have some further comments. (more…)
Like many of the visitors to this site, I eagerly awaited the release of the MCFC Analytics dataset. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me, but I’ll just get to the point and say it: the basic dataset that MCFC and Opta have released is simply not good enough. (more…)
Manchester City’s MCFC Analytics page is now online, and thousands of people are signing up to receive access to Opta’s on-ball data for the 2011-12 Premier League. But what will users be receiving? This post gives a hopefully not-too-technical description of the data. (more…)
Earlier this summer, we had a unique opportunity to interview Gavin Fleig and gain insights on his opinions in soccer analysis. Here’s part one and part two of that interview.Today, Gavin is cementing his position as one of the leaders in the soccer analytics industry by releasing the entire portfolio of data for Manchester City’s […]
The approval of the use of goal-line technology by FIFA’s International Football Association Board is a historic event in the evolution of the sport whose consequences may not be apparent over the near- or medium-term.First, the facts of the matter: the IFAB, which approves all changes to the Laws of the Game, unanimously approved the […]
If you have been following my Twitter feed over the last ten days, I’ve been building a match result database for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations using my Football Match Result Database schema. I wanted to test my designs in the field, so to speak, using a competition that would exercise almost all of […]
There is an informative interview on the Beyond the Pitch website with John Coulson and Duncan Alexander of Opta Sports about the collection of data in football and its growing use in the sport. Anto (the host), John, and Duncan talk for about 30 minutes on Opta's growth in the football industry, its data collection […]
