Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game (Bloomsbury Sigma)
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Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game (Bloomsbury Sigma)
What football had not witnessed, Anderson and Sally felt, was an analytics revolution. Plenty of people were reading the numbers and taking note of what they said: these are the players who have sprinted the most, these are the number of shots we have taken and the rest. But nobody – as far as they could tell, at least – was trying to find out what
... See moreRory Smith • Expected Goals
This simple tool supported the collection of a surprising amount of data. Most of this data told us what had happened in a game, and it required relatively straightforward calculations to yield useful information about player performance. A more sophisticated class of statistics was then made possible by computation. My sense, too, is that there wa... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Limits of Optimization
But then the counting started, and with it came an explosion of new information. The advent of modern sports analysis techniques means that now data is collected on every detail of every ball in every First Class or List A cricket match in the world. For many of those matches and for all internationals and major T20 leagues we also have Hawk-Eye (o
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The Barcelona Inheritance: The Evolution of Winning Soccer Tactics from Cruyff to Guardiola
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Computer algorithms have recently proven their worth in ball games,
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
Within the sporting world, of course, the point is to win, and to do so in a way that can be clearly determined quantitatively. There are no grounds for anyone to ask a manager or a player to pursue a strategy that will diminish their competitive edge. Most of life, however, is not a game with quantifiable outcomes, and probably shouldn’t be treate... See more