Six months ago I brought up the idea of effective time in football and developed an algorithm to calculate it from a technical/tactical data set (aka touch-by-touch data created by companies such as Opta Sports). It’s not a novel concept — RAI would display such a statistic during their Serie A broadcasts in the […]
Since last season the J-League has been publishing — through its data partner Datastadium — actual playing time statistics for every match in Divisions 1 and 2. It’s part of a new initiative called +Quality (Plus Quality) which aims to improve the spectacle of matches for spectators by minimizing the events that annoy them, like […]
In my previous post on match tempo, I presented a chart that compared final league position to average possessions per game and average effective time in a match. It was rude of me to introduce a term and not define it, much less discuss it, so I’ll do so now.I’ve been fascinated by the idea […]
