Fulham’s Defense: Historically Awful
By Julian Ryan For Fulham fans like myself, this has been a tough season to watch. The team’s typically solid defense which has long kept them out of the relegation battle and firmly entrenched in the...
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Spatial Analysis of Corners
By Daniel Silberwasser Jose Mourinho, one of the most successful soccer managers of all time, once asked: “How many countries can you think of where a corner kick is treated with the same applause as a...
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UEFA Champions League: The Value of a One Seed
by Barrett Hansen and Brendan Kent In the final phase of the 2013-2014 UEFA Champions League Group Stage, Manchester City beat Bayern Munich 3-2 at the Allianz Arena in Munich. As stunning as City’s...
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Borussia Dortmund: Bad or Just Unlucky?
By Brendan Kent Just last season, Borussia Dortmund placed second in the Bundesliga. The year before that, they also placed second and reached the Champions League final. And in the two seasons before...
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Major League Soccer and the Effect of Egalitarianism
By Brendan Kent A key feature of Major League Soccer that separates it from European leagues is the salary cap. For the 2014 season, that salary cap was $3,100,000 spread over roughly twenty players....
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Does Travel Distance Affect Results in MLS?
By Brendan Kent A key feature of Major League Soccer that differentiates it from European leagues is the physical distance between the teams. While the two-conference system reduces the average...
View ArticleAn Early Look at the 2019 USWNT World Cup Roster
By Brendan Kent We’ve got the three stars. We’ve had ourselves a ticker tape parade. And while I don’t think the celebration should end anytime soon, it’s been long enough since the final whistle blew...
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Foul Play in the EPL?
By Daniel Silberwasser Home field advantage has become a crucial element of professional soccer. The final matches of major tournaments such as the UEFA Champions League are played in predetermined...
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Evaluating EPL Bookmakers
By Daniel Silberwasser With legal sports betting becoming a possibility in the U.S., it might be in our financial interest to investigate the track records of various U.K. soccer bookmakers. Using...
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Team “Form”, Recency Bias, and Regression to the Mean
By Daniel Silberwasser The term “form” is often used in soccer to refer to either a player or a team’s recent performance. A key aspect to the idea of form is that form influences future success. For...
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Lewandowski’s Historic Night
By Andrew Puopolo Today, Robert Lewandowski came on as a halftime substitute for Bayern Munich as they trailed 1-0 at home to VfL Wolfsburg. 14 minutes later, following the most incredible sequence of...
View ArticleInsert Title Here: Why Manchester United Desperately Need a Title This Season
By Nathan Goldberg, Maja Campara, Christopher Martinez, and Siqi Zhao After a glorious 26 year and 38 trophy spell at Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson decided to step down from his role as manager...
View ArticleChelsea’s Title Hangover
By Thomas Negron Last season’s Premier League title was all but won last April at Emirates Stadium where Chelsea secured a 0-0 draw to maintain a 10 point league lead over Arsenal with just five...
View ArticleChollima Tactics: North Korean Team Strategy at the 1966 FIFA World Cup
By Brendan Kent In very few nations does politics become entangled with everything else so much as in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Political ideology manifests itself in film, music,...
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How likely are keeper penalties?
By Brendan Kent Keeper penalties are quite simply the best. First of all, if a keeper is taking a penalty we are most likely in sudden death penalties of a knockout match. Pretty exciting to begin...
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Why Leicester City Shouldn’t Be atop the Table: A Historical Look at Parity...
By Carlos Pena-Lobel In what will hopefully be a 3 part series, I will take a look at parity in European Soccer. But parity is a buzz word without a well-defined meaning. In this post, we look at 2...
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Why Leicester City Will Win the Premier League
By Thomas Negron After a stunning first half of the season, Leicester see themselves in first place. However, it is hard to see a way for them to continue this run of form over the second half of the...
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Why Leicester City Will Not Win the Premier League
By Thomas Negron If you talked to a Leicester supporter this time last year, they would probably not describe their Christmas as being merry. Leicester, who were playing in the Premier League for the...
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Cinderella Chances in the FA Cup
By Andrew Puopolo This weekend marks the 3rd round of the FA Cup on the British soccer calendar. For those (presumably American) readers that are unfamiliar with the FA Cup, it is a competition very...
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Premier League Stat Around: Who Will Win the Title?
With just twelve matches left before the Premier League champion will be crowned, we decided to take a look at the contenders and offer our predictions as to who will raise the trophy, come May....
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