Bill Gerrard is a professor of Sport Management and Finance at the Leeds University Business School and has spent decades on sport club valuation and the development of actionable sports analytics. He has worked with a number of professional football teams, branched out to baseball (and a partnership with Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane), and […]
When I’m shuttered away in my home office hacking code or trying to figure out how I’m going to make money, I fail to notice certain events. And one of those events was a really big one — Stefan Szymanski is now at the University of Michigan!Dr. Szymanski was until recently a noted economics professor […]
I am back in Arizona after a highly productive weekend at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and I've recovered enough from the day's travel to do some work. Sarah Rudd told me about a site that she has set up to aggregate posts from other soccer analytics people and allow those in the field […]
It's the week of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, so perhaps it's a good time to look up and down my blogroll and write about the soccer analytics work that other people are doing. I think the last time I did this was during the World Cup; I might make this a semi-regular feature […]
I've spent a lot of time on data collection and modeling, and not as much on analytics. To fill the gap I've decided to focus on what other people did with respect to statistical analysis during the World Cup:Waiting for the equalizer is a site written by a Serbian football fan that has some interesting […]
I've been looking around for Spanish-language websites and papers related to statistical analysis in football, and I've been able to find a couple. The first is a Chilean/Spanish company called AIM Fútbol, which has developed a software package called SICO which generates advanced individual- and team-level statistics for professional football clubs. The company says that […]
