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Nerder. Soccer by way of American Soccer Analysis. Seattle Mariner fan, general fan of sports tragedy and part time Wowzy healer.| Bluesky Social
Nerder. Soccer by way of American Soccer Analysis. Seattle Mariner fan, general fan of sports tragedy and part time Wowzy healer.| Bluesky Social
By Harrison Crow I’m not gonna lie, I wrote the Western Conference and I liked it. I liked it so damn much that I didn’t want to write about the Eastern Conference and you know why, because there is so much more going on. It’s twice as deep and a mile wide. But what the hell, Kieran wants both| American Soccer Analysis
By Harrison Crow This year has been … wild. I’m not even just talking about the MLS season. Just within ASA itself it’s been wild and once or twice it’s been exactly that meme between Liz lemon and Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock where Liz looks at Jack and sighs exasperated saying “what a week, huh” and Jack casually strolls away while saying “Lemon, it’s Wednesday”.| American Soccer Analysis
What to know about the newest ASA platform Catalina Bush Have you ever wished that you could picture the game in front of you? Not as a broadcast, or a highlight video, but on a sheet of paper? All of a midfielder’s passes, your striker’s shots, an opponent’s tendencies, visualized? Previously, that required access to data, coding knowledge, and hours spent reinventing the wheel, just to see the most fundamental aspects of our game in graphic form. Not anymore. Introducing American Socc...| American Soccer Analysis
Our friends in the extended ASA Universe over at Expected Own Goals have dropped a new series, talking to players about key moments in their matches and how they see the game. Check it out.| American Soccer Analysis
This week, we published extracts of Major League Soccer’s roster profile releases to our GitHub. In addition to parsing the information the league provides about each club’s roster construction and each player’s contract status, we’ve also matched the teams and players to their respective Am| American Soccer Analysis
Originally conducted during the 2024 season and only slightly interrupted by Hurricane Helene, these insights provide a valuable snapshot of how analytics have been evolving in the NWSL| American Soccer Analysis
Over the last several years, the team here at American Soccer Analysis has been assessing the State of MLS Analytics by combing through team websites, scouring LinkedIn, and asking those who would know about how many people each team employs. This year, we’ve taken our talents to the women’s gam| American Soccer Analysis
Every year, we update the State of MLS Analytics by putting teams into tiers based upon how many analytics staff they have. However, the number of analytics staff members doesn’t necessarily say anything about the quality of work that a club is producing or if analytics is being incorporated int| American Soccer Analysis
Ten years ago, if an MLS club had one person “doing analytics” it was a big deal. Now a majority of clubs now have multiple full time employees in actual analytics departments and a team is seen as backwards if it don’t have at least one staff member primarily focused on game analytics. Every year,| American Soccer Analysis
By Paul Harvey, Mike Imburgio, Ben Bellman Since it was introduced, Goals Added has been superior to most of the publicly available algorithmic rating systems, such as those provided by WhoScored, SofaScore, or Fotmob. The additional context of just how much each action is contributing to the likelihood of scoring provides more information than simply evaluating a player based on the number of certain actions (the value of those actions also weighted by a human being, introducing bias). Simil...| American Soccer Analysis
