Unlike the three-point revolution in the NBA and the advent of on-base percentage in baseball, soccer doesn't have that single metric that has changed the way we follow the sport. Of course, there are ...

When Moneyball, Michael Lewis’s account of how statisticians and data analysts were transforming baseball, was published in 2003, people across the soccer world realized just how far behind the curve ...

Soccer analytics operates within an interesting space in sports culture. Perhaps its biggest group of casual users – the types of fans and analysts that drove sabermetrics in baseball – are located in ...

Thanks, in part, to the Michael Lewis book Moneyball, and subsequent Hollywood film starring Brad Pitt, analytics in American sports have increasingly entered the mainstream consciousness. From a ...

Data and analytics surely aren’t the only reason for the Seattle Sounders’ remarkable late-season run that’s resulted in a chance to play for an MLS Cup title on Saturday. But it’s clearly helped. As ...

It isn’t often that your crusty great uncle sitting around a Thanksgiving dinner table and a computer scientist hunched over a spreadsheet share a common viewpoint, but here it goes: There isn’t ...

With Manchester City opening up its data to the masses, the golden age of soccer analytics is set to begin. This month Manchester City, the younger brother (and rival) of the better-known Manchester ...

Sounders players wear StatSports GPS tracking devices during MLS Cup training session. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) During practice, in the front office, on the jerseys — technology is impacting ...

Statistical analysis is commonplace in almost all sports today. In baseball statistical analysis has its own name, sabermetrics, and is used almost universally. In hockey the analytics debate has ...