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Is the football season over already?

31, 08, 15
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Less than a month into the new season and some people are already asking if the season is settled. In France PSG have won their first four games, scored 7 and conceded none. In England Manchester City has won its first four, scored 10 and conceded none. This is all the more striking g
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A pragmatic proposal for FIFA reform

08, 06, 15
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Reforming a political system that has been tarnished by corruption is a practical problem. Amidst all the grandstanding and impassioned rhetoric, a reform process may or may not be implemented. To read much of the comment on the FIFA scandal(s), one might think it was simply a questio
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And now for something completely different…

23, 04, 15
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Here is what I said: “Americans constantly tell me that owners of sport franchises in the US will insist on making money. If that really is the case, then I predict that MLS will collapse, and probably sooner rather than later.” Here is here the headline from Kevin McCaule
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Peter Wilt’s comments on the MLS business model

23, 04, 15
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Peter Wilt is worth listening to: he was the first President and General Manager of the Chicago Fire and has made subsequent attempts to bring MLS franchises to the Mid West. He understands the MLS model and, I would guess, has faith in it. But he also understands business. He tweeted
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So what is the MLS business model?

23, 04, 15
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“On a combined basis, MLS and its clubs continue to lose in excess of $100 million per year.” — MLS deputy commissioner Mark Abbott, October 28, 2014. It was widely reported in October 2014 that LAFC agreed to pay a franchise fee of $110 million. Also that in May 2013 NYCF
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The FA pursues its policy of isolationism

23, 03, 15
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It appears that Greg Dyke, head of the FA, governing body of English football, has persuaded the government to approve new rules on work permits for foreign players. This includes requiring foreign players to come from more successful football nations (according the FIFA rankings) and
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Premier League and the euro

10, 03, 15
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The continuing crisis in the eurozone is set to generate an invasion of British tourists this summer. Today the FT reported that euro is heading to parity with the US dollar, as investors move capital out of Europe. Greece and Russian concerns are part of it, but also the policy of qu
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MLS and American sports capitalism

01, 03, 15
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My argument that MLS is really “Minor League Soccer” continued to stoke some controversy over here in the US last week. Judging by the reactions on twitter, most of those who follow MLS do not really contest the point. Serious football fans in the US know their soccer, they watch game
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The consequences of the new Premier League broadcast contract

11, 02, 15
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For much of my career I have said that football, unlike the major leagues in the US, is not a business that can generate a profit. There is too much competition and too many incentives to win to make profits feasible. But maybe the Premier League has just changed all that. The new dom
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Nielsen data on TV sports market in the US

05, 02, 15
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The Nielsen Year in Sports Media 2014 Report provides a very good impression of the status of football (soccer) in US broadcast markets. The data confirms that the World Cup is becoming one of the nation’s major sporting events, but that league football is struggling to attract
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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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