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Football Match Result Database Project: Release Day!

This is the fourth part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project.  Here are the other articles in the series:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsThis is the moment that you — and I — have […]

Football Match Result Database Project: Philosophy and functionality

This is the third part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project.  Here are the other articles in the series:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart IV: Code releasePart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsYesterday I wrote a long article on the origins of the FMRD and the […]

Football Match Result Database Project: A not-so-brief history

This is the second part of my week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project.  Here are the other articles:Part I: Selected screenshotsPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart IV: Code releasePart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsI've looked back at my previous posts on the subject and I realize that I have been […]

Football Match Result Database: A teaser of the data-entry application

This is the first part of what will be a week-long presentation of the Football Match Result Database project.  Here are the upcoming articles:Part II: Motivation, design and implementation historiesPart III: Database objective, design, and featuresPart IV: Code releasePart V: Roadmap and call for contributorsI have been very quiet on the Football Match Result Database […]

Another opportunity for soccer analytics

On the heels of the Opta announcement is another opportunity for soccer analytics people that I found out about at the SSAC today.  There is a startup called StatDNA that has devoted a lot of time to collect in-match data and develop statistical measurements that generate information from those data.  They are organizing a contest […]

The tension between open-source and proprietary soccer analytics

My post in response to the Brian Phillips article in Slate touched a little on the issues of open source versus proprietary approaches to soccer analytics, but this blog post at Hot Time in Old Town (a Chicago Fire fan’s site) has motivated me to write more at length on the subject.  It’s something that […]