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Some principles of profitable betting: guest blog by Kevin Pullein of the Racing Post

25, 04, 16
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As well as being a football writer for the Racing Post, Kevin is author of The Definitive Guide to Betting on Football Your only reasonable hope of winning money by gambling is to bet at odds that are bigger than they should be.  A coin is as likely to land on heads as on tails.  It i
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The exhaustion myth: is there any evidence that the performance of the England team is affected by a long club season?

28, 03, 16
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After England’s encouraging 3-2 win against Germany yesterday the English are predictably getting excited about the prospects for Euro 2016. Readers of this blog are no doubt familiar with one of the best chapters in Soccernomics, which provided the original title of the UK edition- ”
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Leicester City and Donald Trump: a new era for the Premier League?

24, 03, 16
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From a statistical perspective, the Leicester City story is a bit like the Donald Trump story. In both cases an outsider has risen unexpectedly to being on the verge of winning a competition while pundits have consistently written off their chances. Both threaten to disrupt the establ
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Superleague (again): picking up the money left on the table

30, 01, 16
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Since the 1980s there has been intermittent talk of a Superleague, but positive comments made last week by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, CEO of Bayern Munich and Chairman of the European Club Association, and by Christian Seifert, CEO of the Bundesliga, suggest that some planning has already
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FIFA and the Separation of Powers

03, 12, 15
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FIFA’s Exco ratified a raft of reforms today. The most interesting to me was the separation of “political” and “management functions”. The Executive Committee (elected by the Congress of members) now becomes a Council with general oversight of the development of FIFA but no day-to-day
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Making money out of football

26, 11, 15
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The Financial Times had a very interesting article yesterday about the growing interest of American private equity investors in the English Premier League. Of course, American investors have been deeply involved in the biggest clubs for some time now – Manchester United, Arsenal
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Nuggets from a new French book on Zlatan, boys named Zidane, air pollution etc

01, 11, 15
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By Simon Kuper If you read French, there’s a new book out that you will probably enjoy. It’s called Sciences Sociales Football Club, and it’s by French economist Bastien Drut (translator of Soccernomics!) and Richard Duhautois. It bears a family resemblance to Soccernomics, in that it
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Guest Blog: Mending the transfer system

13, 10, 15
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This is guest post by Stephen F. Ross, who is Professor of Law at Penn State and an expert on the law and economics of sports Stefan Szymanski is my friend and sometimes co-author, so our quibbling about this issue has been a source of enlightenment as well as help for my own research
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FIFPro’s Challenge to the Player Transfer System in Europe

11, 10, 15
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FIFPRo, the union that represents professional football players globally, recently launched a competition law challenge to the player transfer system in Europe. Formally speaking, they have initiated this by lodging a complaint with the Competition Directorate of the European Commissi
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A refugee’s experience of welcome – Abraham Klein arriving in the Netherlands after World War II

07, 09, 15
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The extract below is from my book Ajax, The Dutch, The War (2003). It’s an interview with the former Israeli referee Abraham Klein, at his house in Haifa in 1999. It seemed quite relevant this week. Simon Kuper “I will tell you something,” says Klein, after we have been drinking
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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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