Insights, research, and analysis on football analytics.
Published on January 22, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
With League Two’s Bradford City only one match away from playing at Wembley in the League Cup final I thought it would be interesting to see what the chances were of them getting this far...
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Previously on this blog I have discussed my attempts at using the Poisson distribution to predict the number of goals scored in football matches. So far, the results have been...
Read MorePublished on January 18, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
New article for Betting Expert looking at the current Premier League standings compared with the predictions from my refined version of the Pythagorean Expectation.
Read MorePublished on January 02, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
The next stage for developing my refined version of the Pythagorean equation is to characterise how many weeks of data it actually needs to make accurate football predictions...
Read MorePublished on December 15, 2012 by Martin Eastwood
Up until week 12 of the season, Dimitar Berbatov was one of the English Premier League’s top goal scorers and goal creators. However, since then he has gone 450 minutes without registering either a...
Read MorePublished on December 10, 2012 by Martin Eastwood
The next stage for my Pythagorean's development is to testing whether it can be applied to leagues outside the EPL. Having one Pythagorean equation that could be used globally is preferable to havi...
Read MorePublished on December 03, 2012 by Martin Eastwood
Part two of guide to applying the baseball pythagorean to football.
Read MorePublished on November 26, 2012 by Martin Eastwood
Introduction to applying the baseball pythagorean to football.
Read MorePublished on November 20, 2012 by Martin Eastwood
Having mentioned the effect disparity plays on determining the league champions in previous posts I thought it would be interesting to look at the actual levels of disparity currently present in fo...
Read MorePublished on November 18, 2012 by Martin Eastwood
Since taking over as manager of Tottenham Hotspur, André Villas-Boas has been trapped in former Spurs manager Harry Redknapp’s shadow. Every tactical decision or team selection Villas-Boas makes is...
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