I see that my posts on match tempo have attracted a lot of attention and comments. Some of them disagree with my approach and/or ask some interesting questions. I don’t have a problem with that — the existence of critical comments indicates that people care enough about what your work to pose them.One comment asked […]
A few weeks ago I wrote my thoughts on match tempo as it is currently defined in soccer. Essentially, the possessions per team metric, one borrowed from basketball, runs into some limitations when applied to football or other invasion sports conducted over a large playing area. This opinion is not a knock on other analysts […]
Match tempo is an important metric in soccer and other field invasion sports because it provides the context for understanding other in-game actions such as possession and offensive and defensive output. Much of the pioneering work in tempo in sport started with people such as Dean Oliver, John Hollinger, and Ken Pomeroy in basketball and […]
