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MHR Poll of the Week for August 22, 2011: Better Late Than Never
Sorry for the delay folks, but the Mile High Report Poll of the Week missed a week and was delayed a day, but it's back, and after the results of two weeks ago, pumped to get back to keeping ourselves close to the pulse of Mile High Report. Two weeks ago we asked you what type of running back...
Stiliyan Petrov And His Place At Aston Villa: Alex McLeish Needs To Make A Tough Call
Stiliyan Petrov is starting to feel like that hangover that just won't go away, that persistent throbbing in your temple left over from the Martin O'Neil Era. Signed by MON in 2006, the Bulgarian is now 32 years old and showing his age. It's time for Alex McLeish to take a stand and give the Aston...
Stats: Offensive Pass Percentage in MLS
When the league announced before the season that Opta was being contracted to gather in-depth stats in league play, stat nerds like myself went giddy at the opportunity for more in-depth analysis of the events that make up a soccer match. But for the first half of the season, the only output we...
Some Clarification is in Order: Offensive Trends Review
Happy Independence Day to Americans, and a happy regular 4th of July to everyone else! So with the two parts of the offense covered, passing and rushing, which covered a lot of topics. This third and final part covering the offense will review what the past two articles have discussed, ranging...
Some Clarification is in Order: The Passing Game & NFL Trends
So one thing that is often talked about by fans across the NFL is trends, becoming a more pass happy league, a QB driven league, weakening of the running game. Well I have always heard of these trends, and seen basic data proving or disproving them, but I wanted to take a deeper look myself at...
12/17/10 Det-Chi Passing
Back in December, I put out feelers for people to score the 12/17 Detroit-Chicago game. I even offered to pay. I ended up with data for the third period of the game that's an absolute treasure trove. (In case you ever want to do it yourself, a Hawks fan - known only as E. Gao - spent 18 hours...
EPL: How Controlling Territory leads to Winning
Here's the main reason why I stress the importance of controlling territory in soccer. Territory percentage is essentially a measure of where a team has the ball - it takes the number of completed passes and weights them by the difficulty of completing each pass. The plot below is for the last...
English Premier League Home/Road Territory Stats 2009-10
You'll have to take my word for it for the moment, but one of the best indicators of a team's ability is the percentage of territory that it owned on the road with the score tied. What do I mean by 'percentage of territory'? Essentially, this is a measure of both ball possession and location...
World Cup: Uruguay-Ghana
There isn't much to say about the outcome of this game: after over two hours of play, almost all of which was tied, it went to coin tosses, and the Ghanians flipped tails a few more times than we would have expected. Let's look at the passing through the game: Uruguay controlled possession...
World Cup: how Holland Won
This was a strange game, really. If we divide it into four parts: 1) Brazil came out controlling the game and scored a quick goal. 2) Then Brazil slowed the game down, and kept ball possession despite the desperation of the Dutch. 3) Holland tied the game and all of a sudden they were completely...
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