The Correlated Gaussian: Can it be applied to soccer?
League Competitions, Team PerformanceRemaining on the subject of applying quantitative metrics from other sports, I’ll mention one from basketball — the Correlated Gaussian method. (more…)
Substitution behaviors at the 2012 Olympic Men’s Football competition
Team PerformanceWe continue our retrospective of the Olympic Men’s football competition with a presentation of substitution patterns during the tournament. Substitutions were fewer and more defensive in nature than other national team tournaments this year, yet just as many goals were scored by substitutes in this competition.We start with a distribution of the substitution events at […]
Final rotation practices at the 2012 Olympic Men’s Football Competition
Team PerformanceWe start our statistical retrospective of the 2012 Olympic football competition with a look at the rotation practices of the 16 finalists. This is in the same vein as similar analyses for the Africa Cup of Nations and the European Championships and includes the squad rotations through the end of the knockout stage (“medal round” […]
Group stage substitutions at the 2012 Olympics
Team PerformanceWe continue our look at the 2012 Olympic men’s football competition by examining the substitution behavior through the group stage matches. (more…)
Rotation practices at the 2012 Olympic Football Men’s Competition
Team PerformanceWe take a look at how Olympic team managers have rotated their squads during the men’s football competition of the London Olympics, using the same analysis conducted for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations and UEFA Euro 2012. (more…)
More on substitutions at Euro 2012
Player Performance, Team PerformanceMy previous post on substitutions at UEFA Euro 2012 drew a comment on Soccermetrics Research’s Facebook page that asked if I could control for the substitute’s position in my analysis. I was curious about the results myself, so here they are. (more…)
Substitutions and their impact at Euro 2012
Player Performance, Team PerformanceI continue my statistical review of UEFA Euro 2012 with a look at the substitution patterns over the duration of the tournament. The analysis is similar to what I did for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. (more…)
Rotation practices at UEFA Euro 2012
Team PerformanceBack in February I started a multi-part statistical retrospective of the Africa Cup of Nations which served two purposes: it shed light on the practices of managers of the national teams in the competition, and it provided me with an opportunity to further develop and test the software library for the Football Match Result Database. […]
The problem with Euro Cup analysis
High-Level Discussions, Player Performance, Team PerformanceI need to make an admission: I dread doing team and player performance analysis for the European Championships. (more…)
Sudden Impact? Substitution at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations
Player Performance, Team PerformanceHow have managers at the Africa Cup of Nations deployed their substitutions during their matches, and have they had their desired impact on the game? I take a look at the match result data to answer the first question and start to answer the second.One caveat that I should state is that the timings of […]