I read a tweet a few weeks ago from a Liverpool fan about how opposing goalkeepers always seem to play their best match against Liverpool, and citing the fact that five opposing goalkeepers had been selected Man of the Match this season.  StatDNA has a statistic that measures how many goals a goalkeeper was expected to let in, given the quality of the finishes he’s faced, so I decided to use this statistic to see how valid the claim was.   In mathematical terms we’re measuring the expected value (EV) of the shots on target that the goalkeeper faced (excluding pena... [More]

StatDNA is very excited to announce that onfooty.com's Sarah Rudd has joined us as Vice President, Analytics and Software Development.  We couldn't think of a better addition to our team, Sarah's obviously well known for her soccer analytics acumen to all of her blog followers (not to mention that she won StatDNA's analytics competition), and she also brings tremendous skills in software development from working in search engine customization at Microsoft.  You can look for blog posts from Sarah on StatDNA.com in the months to come, as well as continued posts on her own blog. ... [More]