Sport Uniao Sintrense have never featured in their nation's top-flight before, but four men are aiming to change that ...

Data Systems Redefining Competitive Decision Making Professional sports are no longer shaped only by instinct, tradition, or experience passed down through coaching trees. Over the last decade, ...

This always surprises people, but event data is collected by people watching the matches. At Stats Perform, we have one analyst who codes the actions of the home team, another analyst who codes the ...

Unlike the three-point revolution in the NBA and the advent of on-base percentage in baseball, soccer doesn't have that single metric that has changed the way we follow the sport. Of course, there are ...

Soccer analytics operates within an interesting space in sports culture. Perhaps its biggest group of casual users – the types of fans and analysts that drove sabermetrics in baseball – are located in ...

When Moneyball, Michael Lewis’s account of how statisticians and data analysts were transforming baseball, was published in 2003, people across the soccer world realized just how far behind the curve ...

With Manchester City opening up its data to the masses, the golden age of soccer analytics is set to begin. This month Manchester City, the younger brother (and rival) of the better-known Manchester ...