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LA Clippers and the value of sports clubs/franchises

04, 06, 14
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  The announcement that Steve Ballmer is willing to pay $2 billion for the LA Clippers, traditionally one of the less glamorous franchises in the NBA has led to a lot of discussion about whether this is a “reasonable” price to pay. My eye was caught by two articles – one by Andy
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Is the penalty shoot-out fair?

22, 05, 14
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The best way to watch a penalty shoot-out at home is with the volume turned down. It’s the only guarantee that you will not have to hear the commentator say: “And now for the lottery of the shoot-out.” The one thing I learned, above all else, from my research in writing my book Twelve
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Financial Fair Play punishments – and the winner is?

16, 05, 14
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UEFA have now published settlement agreements for FFP with nine clubs – Manchester City (England), PSG (France) Galatasaray, Trabzonspor, Bursaspor (Turkey), Rubin Kazan, Zenit St. Petersburg, Anji (Russia) and Levski Sofia (Bulgaria). This concludes the FFP process for 2014/15.
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An assessment of the FA Chairman’s England Commission Report

12, 05, 14
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About six months ago the FA Chairman, Greg Dyke, declared that the small number of Englishmen playing in the Premier League was a problem, and announced the creation of a Commission to investigate the matter. Last week the Commission published its report, calling for some radical chan
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Fifa has bigger problems than corruption alone: A guest blog by Roger Pielke, Jr.

07, 05, 14
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    For much of the past four years FIFA, the organization which oversees global football and the World Cup, has been dogged by allegations of corruption and poor management.  In 2011, after two members of the FIFA Executive Committee had tried to sell their votes for future
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Yet more on promotion and relegation

28, 04, 14
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Someone tweeted me to look at this piece by Dan Loney which deals in part with my previous blog on MLS. Mr Loney took exception to parts of our book on the grounds, I think, that we were not entirely respectful of the state of American soccer. I don’t think he’s a huge fan
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How football clubs benefit from the World Cup (and Euros)

23, 04, 14
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I wrote a blog a little while ago saying that clubs benefit because attendance rises at league games after hosting a World Cup or European Championship. This is based on some work I have been doing with Bastien Drut and we now have a paper which shows the size of the benefit in much m
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The future of Major League Soccer

07, 04, 14
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I promised a couple of weeks ago to write a piece on the role of the promotion and relegation in promoting the popularity of Major League Soccer. Promotion and relegation applies in every major soccer league in the world. The worst performing teams (in purely sporting terms) at the en
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Financial Fair Play debated at the Royal Economic Society Conference

06, 04, 14
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Tomorrow I will be participating in a round table debate on Financial Fair Play with some interesting and important economics professors: Egon Franck – he sits on the UEFA Club Financial Control Body which administer the rules of FFP Ignacio Palacios-Huerta – adviser to At
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Is Europe’s Football Labour Market Efficient?

01, 03, 14
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I have an article published in the latest edition of the IMF house journal about the labour market for European footballers. They asked me to write the article because their perception was that footballers move freely across European markets, and that this makes for an “efficien
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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
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