Another round of Premier League football is in the books, meaning only six match days plus four FA Cup-delayed matches remain in the 2012-13 season. The race for fourth is starting to heat up, and if one only looks at the table it appears that no team in the bottom seven is really ahead in [...] Read more ›
Normally this blog only focuses on the intersection of soccer and statistics, but every so often events in other sports compel a break from the purely analytical world of soccer and a diversion into commentary instead. Soccer fans in the United States who have grown up in a nation filled with college athletics and closed [...] Read more ›
The final international break of the season has been completed, and last weekend the Premier League’s twenty teams started the business end of the season. All ten scheduled contests were held, while none of the abandoned matches from the last FA Cup weekend will be made up until April 16th and 17th. This means there [...] Read more ›
The UEFA Champions League returns Tuesday night after a three-week break, with Bayern Munich vs. Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain vs. Barcelona kicking off the tournament’s quarterfinal round. Matches between Real Madrid vs. Galatasaray and Malaga vs. Borussia Dortmund provide a second helping of quarterfinal action on Wednesday evening. These games kick off a sprint of [...] Read more ›
The US Men’s National Team’s win against Costa Rica on Friday night may have occurred under some unique circumstances, but it was a win nonetheless. It gave them a much-needed boost in their quest for a seventh straight World Cup final, with their likelihood of doing so only standing at 53% after their opening match loss [...] Read more ›
Throughout the month of March this blog will be publishing interviews with each of the four panelists that were on the 2013 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference’s Soccer Analytics panel. The first interview in this series was with Chris Anderson and David Sally, while the second interview was with ESPN Stats and Information analyst Albert Larcada. [...] Read more ›
Two weekends ago only six of the ten scheduled matches were contested within the Premier League due to a number of FA Cup ties, which meant the projected table didn’t change very much. This weekend all ten scheduled matches were contested, with a number of the results providing some clarity within the projected end-of-season table [...] Read more ›
Last week saw only six of the ten scheduled matches contested within the Premier League due to a number of FA Cup ties. Perhaps the title of this post should have been 9.6 matches to go for it to be technically correct, but 9.5 makes for a much more recognizable number. The point is that [...] Read more ›
Throughout the month of March this blog will be publishing interviews with each of the four panelists that were on the 2013 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference’s Soccer Analytics panel. The first interview in this series with Chris Anderson and David Sally was published last week. This week’s interview is with ESPN Stats and Information analyst [...] Read more ›
One of the many benefits of attending the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is personal interaction with a number of people normally only accessible via email, Twitter, or Skype. Most conference attendees look forward to such personal interaction, and are even willing to do on the record interviews. I was fortunate enough to interview each [...] Read more ›
