Soccermetrics’ Marcotti repository has finally reached an important milestone. The transition of the schema from SQL scripts to Pythonic data models is complete, and a next-generation set of extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tools has been ported successfully from other projects. It’s not a final version, but I feel comfortable with setting a version number at this […]
For the last couple of months, I’ve been updating and modernizing the Marcotti data schemas that Soccermetrics uses to build its match databases. It’s good work, but databases need data to be placed in them, and hopefully in a systematic and reliable way.Over the years, I have written a lot of scripts and modules to […]
Today, I announce the release of the Marcotti-Events data schema on GitHub. Marcotti-Events (formerly known as Football Match Events Database) extends the Marcotti data schema to capture the micro events — touch-by-touch or technical/tactical data in soccer analytics parlance — that make up a football match. There are still some tweaks to be made as […]
A little over three years ago — around the time that the MCFC Analytics initiative was being launched — we rolled out a superset of the Football Match Result Database that accommodated the summary statistics of the MCFC Analytics dataset. That database was called FMRD-Summary. We used it on a few projects, most notably an early […]
It’s been a very long time since I’ve written about Soccermetrics software projects, so in this post I’d like to write about the current status and the roadmap ahead.Soccermetrics has a number of open-source projects that you can find at our GitHub page. Some projects are definitions of tables and views that make up database […]
Since September of last year, the Soccermetrics API has been in a “semi-public” beta. What that meant was that if you expressed interest in the API, you would send an email to request an authentication credential and you would receive one. It was a manual process, to be sure, but it kept the list of users […]
Effective today, the Football Match Result Database (FMRD) will now be known as Marcotti.I tend not to put much imagination into naming software packages. I find it difficult to think of a clever name on demand, and at any rate, I prefer to channel that imagination into writing better software code. (That famous saying about […]
It’s been several months since we last posted updates on the Soccermetrics API to the blog. Not to say that there haven’t been updates — quite a lot, in fact — it’s just that we’ve chosen to reveal those changes through the API documentation pages. But we’ve introduced a pair of changes that are quite […]
We introduce the Soccermetrics API — a sports modelling and analytics layer on top of in-match data sources at varying levels of complexity. The API delivers advanced match analysis of data in an accessible form and makes it easier for end-users to create their own customized analysis tools on football data.This API — also known […]
I haven’t written much about the software that we develop in order to do our analysis, although I have written about our football data models. Hopefully this will be the start of a series of posts in which I unveil a little bit under the covers of what we do here. This post is aimed […]
