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MLSE (Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd) Toronto, ON, Canada | Remote | Contract Role (3-12 Months) We're looking for a Computer Vision Engineer to help our Sport Performance L…

I'm the Director of Analytics at Toronto FC, and I'm always looking for people to collaborate on cool soccer projects with our awesome data. See [0] for some recent public work I'v…

Legally, there isn't much. Most of those sites are powered by Opta data, which is exclusively for-purchase. Statsbomb is a little different. They've started collecting their own da…

Defensive metrics are very difficult for a couple reasons. The first problem is the data. The soccer viewing public is largely familiar with event-level data, typically provided by…

There isn't a ton of great public resources out there. For the most part, anyone who's writing smart analysis in the public space gets hired away to a club. It's exactly what happe…

I stumbled into it largely by coincidence and luck. As you could imagine, there aren't many people that study computer science who were also relatively high level soccer players. I…

I'm the other analyst mentioned in the article, but my position is probably quite similar. I work with a team's coaching staff and management to help them make more data-driven dec…

Funny to stumble across this on Hacker News. I'm the analyst mentioned in the article. Happy to answer any questions about our weird little industry.

I visited Acrosanti this past summer. They have a few rooms available on AirBnB which I fully suggest checking out.

They might be the first NBA team to do it, but I know of at least one Major League Soccer team that does this.