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La Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, conocida por su sigla RSSSF, es una fundación que desde
diciembre de 1994 recopila records y estadísticas de fútbol de todo el planeta. Desde 2000 tengo
el privilegio de ser miembro de la RSSSF y me encargo, junto a varios colegas de diferentes países
del mundo, de la información concerniente a clubes.
Lately I've been spending a lot of time hunched over my laptop, working on sprawling
spreadsheets stacked with strange abbreviations, lots of numbers and percentages, and neatly
colored rows (I like to keep things organized). This has been my response to last Saturday's
disheartening home loss to the Portland Timbers as well as my attempt at figuring out just what is
wrong with the Fire and whether or not Sebastián Grazzini is the answer.
According to PowerStats, an organization devoted to soccer statistics, the Portland Timbers were
better in almost every category during last Saturday's Cascadia Cup match against the Seattle
Sounders.
Despite the 1-1 draw the Timbers made fewer mistakes, made fewer fouls, and won the ball more
often than the Sounders.
I received the new book Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports are Plaued and Games
are Won and finished reading it last week, so here's my review for those of you statistics-addicted
junkies out there. I've got to start ... Continue reading →
Here's another installment of "what is the point value of goals?" It's one thing to see how many
points are associated with different numbers of goals, or to see if first or second half goals
generate more points (they don't). But these analyses leave open the question of whether goals
produce different amounts of points, depending on when the situation the team finds itself in -
whether it is behind, tied, or ahead.
Just a quick post to recommend an article.
Brian Phillips at Slate looks at the challenge of advanced soccer statistics.
