Insights, research, and analysis on football analytics
I demonstrated in my last post that the odds calculated using the Eastwood Index were slightly more accurate than the bookmakers over the course of the football season. My next goal is to work out the optimal way of using this edge to make a profit, starting off with the Kelly...
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It’s the end of the season so it’s time to review how the Eastwood Index performed over the year and how it compared with the bookmakers...
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We have finally reached the end of the season so for the last time in 2012-2013 here are the Eastwood Index’s (EI) probabilities for the English Premier League...
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Here are the latest match probabilities for the English Premier League calculated using the Eastwood Index (EI)...
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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...
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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...
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Here are the latest match probabilities for the English Premier League calculated using the Eastwood Index (EI)...
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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...
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I’ve written a new article for Betting Expert quantifying how much luck affects football...
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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...
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