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Penalty Shoot Outs

Last year I attended a computer science conference at Dagstuhl. The theme was football. At the conference Tim McGarry spoke about penalties and free kicks. His...

Penalty Shoot Outs at the 2010 FIFA World Cup

The 2010 World Cup Regulations stipulate that: In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time...

Ian Franks and the Centre for Sport Analysis, at the University of British Columbia.

Introduction I am delighted to introduce Ian's account, in his own words, of developments at the University of Brirish Columbia during his four decades there....

Richard in Bhutan

Introduction This post introduces Richard Pollard in an account of the history of sport analytics. Richard completed his PhD at the University of the South...

Bayesian additive regression trees

Asmi Toumi and Michael Lopez (2019) (link) have been investigating ice hockey. They presented their work at the New England Symposium on Statistics in...

UEFA Super Cup 2019

The UEFA Super Cup was played between Liverpool and Chelsea in Istanbul on 14 August (link). Liverpool won the game in the penalty shoot out...

Elo ratings at #FIFAWWC 2019

The 2019 Women's World Cup has concluded in France with the USA's victory over the Netherlands in the final (link). 39 of the 52 games...

Looking at win probability

I was following some data live on the Australia v Brazil group game at the 2019 FIFA World Cup (link). It was the first...

Refereeing after 52 games at 2018 #WorldCup

Some ggplots of referee data from the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Games 51 and 52 required extra time and penalty shoot outs. 60 Minute + Games...

#VAR at the 2018 FIFA #WorldCup

Background In March this year, Refereeing World provided a detailed description of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system to be used at the 2018 FIFA...

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