The Resources Thread

[mellon002]

Here is a thread for everyone to post sites with useful information. If you find a paper or a database with good information, please post it here for others to always check back at a later time.

Here is what we have so far.

MLSnet.com: Statistics (http://www.mlsnet.com/statistics/)

ENB Ltd. (http://www.enbltd.com/)

RSSSF (http://www.rsssf.com/)

MLS Attendence Analysis (http://www.kenn.com/soccer/mls/index.html)

Post feedback here (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=2246344#post2246344) and post any useful sites below.

[microbrew]

The Fink Tank (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,7973,00.html)

RoboCup Soccer Simulator (http://sserver.sourceforge.net/)

Applying game theory to soccer: A game theoretic view on soccer (http://home.himolde.no/~haugenk/leo/html/game.pdf) by
Kjetil K. Haugen

This paper compares the calculated and actual behavior players taking penalty kicks.
http://www.econ.brown.edu/~iph/pdf/professionals.pdf

[mellon002]

US Pro Soccer Results, Tables, & Opinions (http://webpages.charter.net/csallen/soccer.htm) by Chris Allen (Last Updated in 2001)

[ChrisE]

Player Ages (http://www.ussoccer.com/templates/includes/news/ProPlayer.PDF), circa November 2002. A ridiculously useful resource for player ages, I don't know if there's a more recent one.

[profiled]

While not exactly a resource, I just wanted to offer anyone who is doing some sort of MLS related stats thing, if they want some web space and/or some help setting something up on a web page to PM me and we can probably get something going.

[genpabloescobar]

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/counters/scoreboard.asp?sport=mls

MSNBC's scoreboards have expanded boxscores other sites don't.

[ChrisE]

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/counters/scoreboard.asp?sport=mls

MSNBC's scoreboards have expanded boxscores other sites don't.

Whoa, sweet. Whoever it was who wanted C/P's by game can at last be satisfied.

Thanks a lot, general.

[Real Ray]

Statsology's Archive for Statistical Analysis Category (http://www.xmlteam.com/statsology/archives/cat_statistical_analysis.php)

Home Page

http://www.xmlteam.com/statsology/

Not a lot of soccer-just the penalty kick study that's been talked about here. But it's good to see the various methodology used-might provide insight re: how to use metrics in soccer.

[microbrew]

Math terms got you confused? Want to be even more confused?

Reference sources:
Wolfram Research's Mathworld (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/) (from the makers of Mathematica software)

For an easier to read source, look up the term in any encyclopedia, a decent free one is found at www.wikipedia.org.

[mellon002]

US Soccer Player Registry (http://www.soccerhall.org/MNT.registry.intro.htm?)

[mellon002]

Soccer-Europe.com (http://soccer-europe.com/Data/Menu.html)

[Andy_B]

God Bless one of Big Soccers own

Sports Attendance Database
http://www.kenn.com/sports/index.html

Soccer TV Ratings
http://www.kenn.com/soccer/tv.html


Andy

[mpruitt]

This was in a couple of old threads but I figured I'd ad them here. These are links to sites where they've used sabermetric principles in other sports.

Baseball Prospectus (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/) is of course the mothership of this line of thinking and study, closely affiliated with Bill James.

Baseball Primer (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/) Another industry standard on par with Baseball Prospectus.

Football Outsiders (http://www.footballoutsiders.com) The 'other' football, great site with really thought out and researched stats on American Football. They've also been very good to us here on Bigsoccer and were nice enough to link (http://www.footballoutsiders.com/links.php) us from their site.

Alleyoop.com (http://www.alleyoop.com/) Basketball metric site which has developed a very interesting Player Efficiency Rating, something I think could be mirrored in soccer if we ever had access to the same kind of stats they do in basketball, such as turnovers etc etc.

82games.com (http://www.82games.com/) Another basketball metric site, featuring the 'Ronald rating' similar to hockey's +/- stat.

Puckerings.com (http://www.puckerings.com/index.html) Hockey metrics site which desirves great mention because of the similarities between the game of hockey and soccer. Not as polished as the other sites listed but is a defanite kindred spirit in that the creator of the site is likewise dealing with the mother of all niches. Here (http://www.puckerings.com/research/analysis.html) he talks about the thought process of stats in hockey and the differences (http://www.puckerings.com/research/analysis.html#baseball) between the game and baseball.* I would consider this article a must read because it does a great job of breaking down sabermetric type thinking for the uninitiated, including some basic mathmatical definitions. (http://www.puckerings.com/research/analysis.html#tools)

[mellon002]

The Mothership of Stats and Analysis (http://www.kenn.com/soccer/analysis/)

Thanks Kenn.

[mellon002]

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