These are the show notes for Episode #10 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with guest Oliver Page. This interview was recorded on 21 February 2014 from my Atlanta office.Oliver Page is a sports trader with experience at a number of firms in the United Kingdom and interests in applying academic research and mathematical concepts to sports statistics […]
These are the show notes for Episode #9 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with guests Simon Farrant and Devin Pleuler of OptaPro. This interview was recorded on 7 February 2014 from Opta Sports headquarters in central London.I was in London to attend the first OptaPro Analytics Forum, which brought together football analytics researchers who made use […]
[This is the third and final part of my perspectives on Soccermetrics on its 5th anniversary.]As I said at the end of part two, football analytics haven’t stood still over the last two years. In fact, a lot of people have gotten involved from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. I’ve heard about some of […]
[This is the second part of my perspectives on Soccermetrics on its 5th anniversary.]While I was expanding from writing about other people’s research in soccer analytics to conducting my own, events were occurring on a backdrop of a Soccermetrics’ transition from a blog to something more formal. I attended the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference […]
[This is the first of a three-part series on my perspectives on Soccermetrics on its 5th anniversary.]On 8 January 2009, I started Soccermetrics in order to “consider problems in applied mathematics and statistics that have applications toward a better understanding of soccer.” This month will mark not just the fifth anniversary of the site, but […]
These are the show notes for Episode #8 of the Soccermetrics Podcast, with featured guest Zach Slaton of Forbes.com. This interview was recorded on 11 January 2014 from the Atlanta office.Zach is an engineer by training and the proprietor of the soccer analytics blog A Beautiful Numbers Game. He has since worked for the last two years […]
This weekend I returned to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, a “must-appear” event for the sports analytics community, and an increasingly influential event in the sports business world. This year was the third edition of the Soccer Analytics panel, and for the first time, a member of the analytics blogosphere was on stage.Returning to […]
The subject of this post is something that I’ve been thinking about for a while, but wasn’t motivated to write something until I read that Paul Gardner anti-analytics piece in Soccer America. (I referenced it in the SRC Newsletter, which you really should subscribe to if you haven’t already.) Here’s the final paragraph:——- To sum up: until […]
