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Introducing the Football Match Result and Summary Database

The ‘lite’ dataset released by the MCFC Analytics project last weekend is a massive dump of almost 200 summary in-match metrics for every player who participated in every match of the 2011-12 English Premier League — more than 10,000 records and 2 million data cells.  We set out to convert that dataset into something more […]

Introducing the Football Match Event Database

Manchester City Football Club have launched an exciting initiative in which they have released the full set of 2011-12 Premier League touch-by-touch data compiled by Opta Sports.  This initiative creates an opportunity to support the development of new team and player performance metrics in football, but also creates challenges in modeling a very rich in-match […]

A dedicated SRC software development site

I have set up a FTP site that will store the executable files related to Soccermetrics' open-source development projects.  It's become very clear to me that Github, while an excellent code repository host, is not the best option for storing binary files.  It will become even more unwieldy as I create branches from the main […]

Football Match Result Database Project: The roadmap and the call

This is the fifth and final part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project.  Here are the previous articles:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart IV: Code releaseNow that my codebase for the FMRD has been made public, this will be the […]