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It’s Football, Not Soccer (And Vice Versa)

03, 04, 18
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This is the introduction to a new book by Stefan Szymanski and Silke-Maria Weineck. The book is available on paper or kindle here.   “It’s Football, not Soccer”: A Strange Case of Linguistic Exile This is a book about what looks, on the surface, like a pointless debate – a debate
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The Edgico: How ÖFK and Athletic found their Edge

19, 10, 17
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There was a new name in the UEFA Europa League draw when it was made in August: Östersunds FK. A small club based in northern Sweden, Östersunds was in the fourth division when Graham Potter, a former lower-league footballer in England with a university degree in leadership and emotio
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Convergence in men’s international soccer competition

11, 10, 17
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Over the summer I teamed up with Dr Melanie Krause from the University of Hamburg to look at the issue of convergence in results of men’s international soccer games between 1950 and 2014. the data came from the Russell Gerrard’s database which we used in Soccernomics, upda
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Football’s Economic Back-Pass

23, 09, 17
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 This guest post was written by Vysyble, a UK based corporate valuation consultancy  “(Strategy is) The determination of the long-run goals and objectives of an enterprise and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for carrying out these goals.” &#
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2017 valuation of MLS by Forbes

17, 08, 17
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So, some people are going to accuse me (yet again) of trolling Don Garber and all things MLS, but I just can’t resist commenting on the new Forbes valuations. Forbes has valued the 20 franchises that were in place last year, as well as revenue and operating profit/losses (earnings bef
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Michigan and The Midlands: a case study in promotion and relegation

30, 07, 17
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Detroit City FC, my adopted team since moving to Michigan (I moved in 2011, they were founded in 2012 – it was in the stars), has had a great season. Having won the Midwest regional final tonight against those arrivistes from Ann Arbor, they now progress to national semi-finals next w
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MLS in San Diego: $150 million for a franchise that will lose $40 million and never make a profit

23, 05, 17
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Franchise scarcity  is a fact of life in the American sports scene. This means that a team is always willing to skip town if it gets a better offer from another city, which is just what the San Diego Chargers did when they decided to move to LA. So what to do? One idea is to attract a
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The rise and fall of Claudio Ranieri

28, 02, 17
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Carlyle stated that “The history of the world is but the biography of great men”, and this theory, with the football manager in the title role, remains ever popular with football fans and pundits. But when it comes to managers there are very few great men. The median tenur
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China on track to reach soccer superpower goal

09, 01, 17
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This article first appeared in the Nikkei Asian Review on January 5th The installation of a new president can lead to revolutionary changes in international relations. So it was with the advent of President Xi Jinping in 2013, who decided that China should become a global soccer super
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MLS and the market for TV soccer in the US

07, 01, 17
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This article first appeared in three installments at WorldSoccerTalk. Like many people I have long argued that the real challenge for MLS is to break the TV market. Europe’s big leagues typically generate about half of their revenues from TV, while MLS is probably below 20%.  The curr
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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

  • Abolition of the transfer system
  • Forecasting the final table for the Premier League 19/20 season: Revisited
  • Forecasting the final table for the Premier League 19/20 season
  • Covid-19 and football club insolvency
  • Soccer Analytics update

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