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Ten Years of pena.lt/y/blog

Published on October 18, 2022 by Martin Eastwood

It's been ten years since I started this blog...

VAR, What is it Good For?

Published on August 22, 2019 by Martin Eastwood

As Edwin Starr famously said, VAR, what is it good for? Well, let's find out...

Anouncement

Published on June 19, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

You may have noticed that my blogging has slowed down over the past few weeks and the reason is that I have joined Onside Analysis as a computational statistician.

MLS Player Salaries: 2013

Published on May 10, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

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...

What Is A Meaningful Sample Size?

Published on April 28, 2013 by Martin Eastwood

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...

What Has Caused Dimitar Berbatov’s Recent Lack of Goals?

Published 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...

Analysis of André Villas-Boas Vs Harry Redknapp

Published 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...

Influence Of Clean Sheets

Published on October 26, 2012 by Martin Eastwood

To make much sense of the statistics available for football we need to have an understanding of their context so I am planning on starting off simple by looking at baselines for various events and ...

Football + Mathematics

Published on October 22, 2012 by Martin Eastwood

There are plenty of analytical football blogs already out there on the internet so I thought long and hard about whether to bother with pena.lt/y..

It's Fergie Time

Published on October 19, 2012 by Martin Eastwood

After Manchester United’s recent defeat to Tottenham, Sir Alex Ferguson was once again furious about the amount of injury time played. He even went as far as to claim the four minutes Chris Foy add...

Hello World

Published on October 18, 2012 by Martin Eastwood

Hello!! Hopefully this blog will be live soon once I have worked out how to use it…

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