My third-and-final post in my profile of ESPN’s statistical coverage of the 2012 European Championships is up at Forbes. In this final post I examine the roll that the Stats & Information Group (SIG) plays in ESPN Deporte’s coverage of the to… Read more ›
Football is traditionally a sport of few statistics, and the bulk of the statistics that have been available, such as shots, fouls, and corner kicks, were neutral and summarizing in nature. (Aside from the obvious positive statistic of goals, of course.) Thanks to companies such as Opta, Prozone, and Match Analysis, football clubs, football leagues, [...] Read more ›
In this special podcast recorded for Forza Futbol, we have Simon Kuper, author of the recently published Soccernomics 2nd edition. Simon is also the author of “Football Against the Enemy”, “Ajax, the Dutch, the War” among others. Simon writes a weekly column in Financial Times. Click here for all the books of Simon. Simon joined [...] Read more ›
I need to make an admission: I dread doing team and player performance analysis for the European Championships. Not only that, but I also dread doing team and player analysis for the World Cup, or the Copa América, or any other continental tournament. Admittedly, that’s a dangerous thing to say, especially for someone who performs [...] Read more ›
Part one of our two-part interview with Gavin Fleig, Head of Performance Analysis at Manchester City. The second part will be released next week in our Soccermetrics Newsletter! Read more ›
Nathaniel Boyden is part of a select group of people who have played professional sport and conducted high quality academic research. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan, but before that he played pro soccer for the Seattle Sounders in the United Soccer Leagues Division I and [...] Read more ›
Erik van den Berg is a recently graduated Economics student from Rotterdam who wrote a fantastic thesis on transfer leagues in soccer. I read the paper at around the same time that I was thinking about publishing a newsletter, and I knew right then that Erik would be a perfect first interview. [Interview originally conducted [...] Read more ›
Part two of my three part series on how ESPN is leveraging their Stats & Information Group (SIG) during their coverage of Euro 2012 is now up at Forbes. This post focuses on how the SIG supports the English-language outlets – from ESPN the Ma… Read more ›
So Harry Redknapp was sacked last week, and I took at look at his tenure at the club and what it means for their future. It turns out that Redknapp was actually doing quite well, especially considering the drop in resources available to him over … Read more ›
In this special podcast I recorded for Forza Futbol, I talked to Professor Stefan Szymanski, economist and author of the recently published Soccernomics 2nd edition. Stefan is a Professor of Kinesiology at School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan and is an author of various books on economics in sports. We talked about the contents of [...] Read more ›
