Keith Lyons
Changing managers in football
Introduction
Why do football clubs sack their managers?
Eni Aluko has written a post in The Guardian about sacking football managers (link). In it she proposes...
Grandmothers and Godmothers in analysis and analytics
The other day, I noticed this enigmatic tweet from Namita Nandakumar (link):
https://twitter.com/nnstats/status/1225877278158151686
I was delighted to see this announcement and the queries it brought about....
Analytics: theory and practice
Stephen Downes provided a link to Dominic Wyse's presentation (link) in his newsletter today (link). In his presentation as President of the British Educational...
#OptaPro Forum 2020
The #OptaForum was held in London on 5 February 2020 (link). The proposed presentations for the Forum were judged in November. The judges scored...
A pedagogy of small
Tanya Elias, Laura Ritchie, Geoffrey Gevalt, and Kate Bowles (2020) (link) have written about the pedagogy of small. Stephen Downes shared the link to...
#WNBL Regular Season 2019-2020
The WNBL Regular Season ended on 1 February 2020 with Southside's 78v61 defeat of Sydney (link). The WNBL has moved into the Finals part...
Observation
The National Gallery of Australia is holding a Matisse and Picasso exhibition at the moment (link). The introduction to the exhibition noted:
Matisse & Picasso...
Tactical Insights Day
Leicester City will host a Tactical Insights Conference at the King Power Stadium (link) on Wednesday 19 February, 2020. This is the second Insights...
Defending a large total in #BBL
Sydney Thunder has defeated the Hobart Hurricanes in a BBL eliminator game (link). Sydney batted first and scored 196 runs in the innings. Hobart...
Analytics' Notes
Introduction
Like most people, I receive pull newsletters in my in box. I find these profoundly helpful. They often contain news of analytics that become...
