Professional Soccer Team Analytics
Pedigree and consistency of purpose are two words/phrases that come to mind when I consider these teams. Both are currently doing very well and in my Composite PWP Index, after 12 weeks, they sit in positions four and five. In considering this early-to-mid-season marquee match-up I've put together a few diagrams that might help paint... Continue Reading →
If you've been following my Possession with Purpose and Expected Wins articles/streaming research you should know by now that the data had a pretty strong correlation to the MLS League Tables last year. So how do things look for PWP at this stage in the MLS this year? A few thoughts.... It's early days... Continue Reading →
Aye... the NFL track 'hurried throws' - why doesn't a Statistics agency involved in Soccer track "Hurried Passes"? I'll get to that but first I need to set some conditions. If you've read my article on Expected Wins 2 (XpW) it seems reasonable that a teams' Passing Accuracy in the Final Third has great value... Continue Reading →
Hopefully most of you read Part I of my series on Expected Wins in Major League Soccer. As a quick reminder the Expected Wins analysis is my internal data quality review on the seven data points I use to support my quantitative Possession with Purpose analysis; the stronger the correlation these data points have the... Continue Reading →
If you’ve been following me the last 2-3 years, through Columbian Newspaper, out of southern Washington, you’ll know that I’ve been researching data with the intent of creating some Indices to analyze "team performance" in Major League Soccer. The initial version of my Possession with Purpose approach was published on 10 February, 2013 on the Columbian... Continue Reading →
All, I'm moving some of my Possession with Purpose work to my new blog site; nothing fancy in the graphics department yet but will get there sometime before a new season in 2015 starts. For now my PWP Pick List and a few other articles will begin to show up here; appreciate your patience! To... Continue Reading →
