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Tag Archives: football
Introducing logic into title-race predictions
During my trip to London this week, I picked up a copy of The Times and discovered that the newspaper’s resident stats man Bill Edgar had predicted the remaining 13 matches of the Premier League season for the current top-five … Continue reading
Premier League rich but performs below par
The Deloitte Money League has been released and unsurprisingly, the Euro Club Index ranking, which rates clubs based on performance, is highly correlated with this annual ranking of wealth. Four of the top-five clubs on the Deloitte list are also … Continue reading
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Tagged Arsenal, Chelsea, football, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Premier League
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USA, Germany, Japan and Canada favoured for World Cup semis
The FIFA World rankings for women’s football have provided a good basis for forecasting the Women’s World Cup so far with seven of the eight favourites in the second round progressing through to the quarter-finals. In addition, our pre-tournament forecast … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Canada, China Women's World Cup, England, football, France, Germany, Japan, United States
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Predicting the Eredivisie: A guest post by Steve Lawrence
Last season, I collected 13 forecasts before the 2013/2014 Eredivisie season, the results of which can be found here. Throughout last season, Relative Age Effect expert Steve Lawrence, an Englishman living in Amsterdam, sent me all sorts of graphs relating to … Continue reading
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Tagged coefficient of variation, Eredivisie, football, mean, prediction, PSV, Soccermetrics, Standard deviation, Steve Lawrence, Twente, Utrecht
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Eredivisie 2013/2014 predictions: how did they fare?
This time last year, Scoreboard Journalism embarked on an exercise to collect Eredivisie predictions from various sources to be assessed to discover how these predictions actually fared. A similar exercise has already begun in time for Friday’s big kick-off for … Continue reading
What is analytics? A response to Chris Anderson
The excellent Chris Anderson has posted a blog asking what analytics actually is. This struck me immediately as an important question, particularly given the way that the word has become so overused that it is perhaps difficult for people to … Continue reading
