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Soccer Analytics update

07, 12, 19
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I’m giving a talk at the Princeton Soccer Conference this weekend and will be reprising my talk on whether sports analytics is more like science or alchemy. Since last year I’ve reworked a lot of my analytics examples using Python rather than R – which has been fun.
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Soccer Analytics: Science or Alchemy?

08, 02, 19
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It is obvious to anyone with a passing interest in the game that the analysis of player and team performance in soccer is in the middle of a revolution. Soccer analytics, which one might broadly define as the application of statistical methods to player and team data, barely existed t
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The most exciting Super Bowl ever?

04, 02, 19
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With everyone saying what a boring Super Bowl it was, it’s worth noting that it was also a very close contest, at least as measured by the score. One way to measure closeness is to take the differences for each scoreline during the game (for last night’s game the scorelines were 0-0,
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The Soccernomics predictions model

31, 01, 19
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This season Soccernomics has been posting weekly predictions for games across 25 European leagues – you can see the predictions here. This is the work of Guy Wilkinson, who completed his PhD at the University of Michigan in 2017 and is now an assistant professor at the Universit
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How to ensure the financial stability of the football pyramid

26, 01, 19
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In their 2018 Annual Review of Football Finance Deloitte stated ”2017/18 represents the fifth consecutive season where there have been no insolvency events in the Football League, demonstrating some reason for optimism about the long term shift towards financial stability.” Possibly,
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UEFA benchmarking report and club profitability

26, 01, 19
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The tenth UEFA Club Licensing Benchmarking Report is, like the previous editions, an amazing treasury of useful financial information from which the intelligent reader can gain some remarkable insights into the state of European football. Since the introduction of Financial Fair Play
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Group Stage Prediction Evaluation Results

30, 06, 18
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As readers here will know, I’ve been tracking rankings of teams in the 2018 World Cup as predictions as I’ve been doing this for the past several World Cups. The 2018 competition wound up with 12 rankings, plus an ensemble representing the average of all of the 12. With the 48 group s
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Germany Lives On

28, 06, 18
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The elimination of Germany from the group stages of the World Cup is a remarkable break with history. Germany has reached the elite eight of every World Cup since 1966. Germany appeared in seven of the last thirteen World Cup finals and won it three times. Even more remarkably, the Wo
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The rebirth of Polish football

23, 06, 18
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This article appeared in today’s Gazeta Wyborca (in Polish). On July 3rd 1974 at around 4pm a huge thunderstorm broke over the Waldstadion in Frankfurt, about an hour before the scheduled start of the World Cup second stage group match between West Germany and Poland. This was e
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World Cup 2018 Prediction Evaluation: Got Skill?

14, 06, 18
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Sport tournaments offer a great laboratory to see if we as smart as we think we are by giving us the chance to predict the future. In 2014 I evaluated 12 different predictions for how the World Cup matches would turn out. For World Cup 2018 in Russia I have identified 8 different rank
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Welcome to The Blog

We hope it will be a venue for some of our new thinking on football, money and data. We wrote the book Soccernomics because we believed that systematic data analysis could tell us interesting things about football. Our collaboration is a match of science and art, matching the numbers to a convincing story, something which we have to do in our day-jobs as a journalist and an academic.

Soccernomics had done well in the UK, the US and around the world since it was published in 2009, and we published a second edition in the spring of 2012 with three new chapters telling more stories using yet more data. But there’s no reason to stop there. Thus far, researchers have only scratched the surface of the football data mines. One of the aims of this blog is to talk about some of the research that is going on, and some of the uses to which that data is being put. For this new project, we’re also joined by journalist and consultant Ben Lyttleton, our partner in the Soccernomics consultancy.


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From the Blog

  • Soccer Analytics update
  • Soccer Analytics: Science or Alchemy?
  • The most exciting Super Bowl ever?
  • The Soccernomics predictions model
  • How to ensure the financial stability of the football pyramid

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