As you know, the Soccermetrics data models are named Marcotti. Over the weekend, the flurry of updates to the projects received some attention: @soccermetrics erm… can’t help but ask… how did u come up with this name? — Gabriele Marcotti (@Marcotti) December 12, 2015After I explained the thinking behind the name, I received this response: […]
Last weekend I had the privilege of attending a research symposium sponsored byStubHub and hosted by the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Wharton has a research program called the Wharton Consumer Analytics Initiative which is “the preeminent academic research center worldwide focusing on the application of customer analytics to business problems.” The main activity of […]
My talk entitled "Entrepreneurship and Soccer Analytics" that I gave at Florida State's Sports Management Conference is now available here as a PDF. It will also be available on the public FTP site of Soccermetrics Research & Consulting in the Presentations folder.My thanks to Dr. Ryan Rodenberg for extending the invitation to present. It was a […]
On Friday I will give a presentation at the 13th Sports Management Conference hosted by Florida State University's Sports Management program. My talk is entitled "Entrepreneurship and Soccer Analytics", which isn't the best title that I could come up with but nevertheless covers the scope of my presentation. I will talk about the motivation for […]
I noticed an uptick in my visitor logs from the Red Cafe website, which is a forum for Manchester United supporters. This is the post that drew in today's visits, and here is another post on the forum (that one by Rational Football's "letranger0") that referenced this site. To all of you visiting, welcome! And […]
A couple of months ago I mentioned that UPenn Wharton had put forward a request for proposals for a ticketing analytics research opportunity with Stubhub. Relationship marketing isn't my main area of work, but the analytics tools for performance analysis and ticketing analysis are similar, so I decided to submit a proposal. I am very pleased […]
A couple of days ago I was invited to speak at the upcoming Sports Management Conference at Florida State University, and I am pleased to announce that I have accepted the invitation. I have not settled on a topic, but it will have something to do with the state of soccer analytics and its potential […]
It's taken a very long time to get to this point, but my paper on the Soccer Pythagorean has been published in the recent edition of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. You can find a link to the paper here. Thanks to all who helped bring this about, and it is my hope and […]
I am very pleased to announce that I have been invited to attend the Leaders in Performance conference, to be held at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea FC on the 7th of October. I am flattered, humbled, and honored that the organizers invited me, and I am looking forward to interacting with football managers, technical and performance […]
Last night (actually early this morning) on my Twitter feed I intimated that there would be some big news forthcoming on this site. Now that I've gotten some sleep, I can reveal it to you. I learned last night that my paper on the soccer Pythagorean estimation will appear in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in […]
