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Analytical Football: World Cup Preview: Spain part 2
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A nerdy look at the beautiful game. Tuesday, June 8, 2010. World Cup Preview: Spain part 2. Firstly, I would be remiss if I didn't mention two fairly recent discoveries. The first is the book by Jonathan Wilson called Inverting the Pyramid. It is best described by its subtitle "The History of Football Tactics". The other is the fantastic blog zonalmarking. There are two important questions, assuming all relevant players are fit. Should Spain start one or both of Torres and Villa? What Does the Data Say?
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Analytical Football: World Cup Preview: Spain part 3
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A nerdy look at the beautiful game. Friday, June 11, 2010. World Cup Preview: Spain part 3. This article will cover the tactics of the current seleccion española. For a more concise summary, which also covers the defensive setup, see the zonalmarking article on Spain. The Back 4 and Goalkeeper. I'll start with the back five to get them out of the way. There are some questions about the lineup at those positions, but they don't affect the style of play or the formation Spain will use. Navas and Mata shoul...
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Spiritditch's Weblog | en personlig blog om cykelsport | Side 2
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En personlig blog om cykelsport. Debutanternes Tour de France 2013 – 9. etape. Udgivet 10. juli 2013 af Morten. Tour de france 2013. Debutanternes top-10 (etapeplacering i parentes). 1 Michal Kwiatkowski (OmegaPharma-Quick Step) 4.43.23 timer (3). 2 Mikel Nieve (Euskaltel-Euskadi) s.t. (16). 3 Nairo Quintana (Movistar) s.t. (19). 4 Romain Bardet (AG2R) 3.34 minutter (24). 5 Ion Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi) s.t. (25). 6 Jose Serpa (Lampre-Merida) s.t. (29). 7 Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp) 6.47 (33).
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Analytical Football: Stat Series: Corner Kicks
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A nerdy look at the beautiful game. Wednesday, October 21, 2009. Stat Series: Corner Kicks. This is the first in what is hopefully a several part series on stats that are out there and what they say about a match. Conventional wisdom on corners. What does the data say? Again the main tool I used was the correlation coefficient. For the home team there is a correlation of -0.046 and -0.031 for the away team. In other words, while the relationship is extremely weak, the fewer. 3 : 136 (163). 2 : 184 (423).
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Analytical Football: Does Defense Wins Champions Leagues?
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A nerdy look at the beautiful game. Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Does Defense Wins Champions Leagues? An old saying, at least for American sports, is that "offense wins games, but defense wins championships". In soccer the claim is often made that in cup competitions, particularly those like the Champions League that use the away-goals rule. My work on this is preliminary. There is much more that I can and will do on this in the future, but I thought I'd share my findings thus far. By using the results...
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Analytical Football: Is Performance in Close Matches Luck or Skill? (Goal Diff and Points - Part 3)
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A nerdy look at the beautiful game. Monday, September 14, 2009. Is Performance in Close Matches Luck or Skill? Goal Diff and Points - Part 3). Note: Here are parts one. Of this series. I strongly recommend reading those before reading this, though I give a summary at the beginning if you just want to get to the business of which teams have gotten lucky and/or been clutch over the last several years. Here is the correlation coefficient for each of the three leagues:. A Look At Individual Clubs. Liverpool ...
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Analytical Football: French Ligue 1 Rankings and Analysis
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A nerdy look at the beautiful game. Monday, November 9, 2009. French Ligue 1 Rankings and Analysis. Here are the rankings:. O Rank - rank by goal-scoring ability. D Rank - rank by ability to prevent goals. EGD - expected goal differential if they played a new season and all teams played at level shown by results thus far. Other than that, a look at the third column confirms my suspicion that there isn't a lot in it at the top. There are 7 other teams within 10 goals in the rating system! Weekend Preview:...
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Analytical Football: Goal Differential and Points - Part Deux
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A nerdy look at the beautiful game. Friday, September 11, 2009. Goal Differential and Points - Part Deux. In a previous article. I discussed goal differential and how well it explains how many points a team gets in a season. I would highly recommend reading that article for those who haven't. The short of it is that goal differential almost. The question at hand is whether this is based on luck, skill or perhaps something else entirely. Here are some possible explanations. This and player skill is diffic...
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Analytical Football: La Liga Rankings
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A nerdy look at the beautiful game. Monday, December 14, 2009. Real Madrid picked up a big win at the Mestalla, otherwise it was as expected near the top. The biggest story is probably Pepe being out for the rest of the year for Real Madrid. Here are the rankings using the system that only takes goals into account:. GFR - Goals for rank. GAR - Goals against rank. EGD - expected goals if they played a new season at the level shown by the scorelines thus far. Reading: La Liga Rankings. Post Link to Twitter.
