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May 10, 2013

EI Match Probabilities for the English Premier League

Here are the latest match probabilities for the English Premier League calculated using the Eastwood Index (EI)...

Martin Eastwood EI EI, EPL

May 10, 2013

MLS Player Salaries: 2013

The latest Major League Soccer (MLS) salaries were released recently by the MLS Players’ Union so I thought I would post a quick summary of the data...

Martin Eastwood Misc Chance, MLS

May 07, 2013

The Eastwood Index, MLS and Parity

I showed in my last post how Major League Soccer (MLS) is a much more closely matched league than the English Premier League (EPL), with the wage cap and draft system increasing the parity between teams...

Martin Eastwood Chance Chance, MLS

May 03, 2013

EI Match Probabilities for the English Premier League

Here are the latest match probabilities for the English Premier League calculated using the Eastwood Index (EI)...

Martin Eastwood EI EI, EPL

May 02, 2013

How Much Does Luck Affect MLS?

Following my recent article for Betting Expert quantifying how large a role luck plays in the English Premier League (EPL) I thought it would be interesting to look at Major League Soccer (MLS) too...

Martin Eastwood Chance Chance, MLS

April 30, 2013

How Much Does Luck Affect Football?

I’ve written a new article for Betting Expert quantifying how much luck affects football...

Martin Eastwood Chance Chance

April 28, 2013

What Is A Meaningful Sample Size?

I had an article published at Betting Expert last week looking at how to determine statistically how much data you need to make accurate predictions...

Martin Eastwood Misc

April 26, 2013