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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

It isn’t often that your crusty great uncle sitting around a Thanksgiving dinner table and a computer scientist hunched over a spreadsheet share a common viewpoint, but here it goes: There isn’t ...

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 ...

Sounders players wear StatSports GPS tracking devices during MLS Cup training session. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) During practice, in the front office, on the jerseys — technology is impacting ...

Devin Pleuler has some thoughts on Expected Goals, the soccer metric that has recently made the jump from the cultish to the mainstream and has inspired new discussions about the way modern soccer is ...

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 ...

In February, Matthew Benham, the owner of the English club Brentford, did an astonishing thing. Even though Brentford had earned promotion to the second-tier Championship just last season, and even ...