Football Prediction: A decision to be made
Today I have been working on my research that is investigating if it is possible to predict the outcome of football matches. The measure I will eventually use, to see if the predictions can be considered successful, will include if it can make money at the bookmakers, if it it more successful than other tipsters […]
Football Fixture Scheduling: Are all clashes equal?
In a paper published in JORS: Kendall G. (2008) Scheduling English Football Fixtures Over Holiday Periods. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 59(6), pages 743-755 (doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602382) I investigated if it was possible to produce superior fixtures for the Christmas/New Year Period with respect to minimising the distance that is traveled by supporters on two particular […]
Football Fixture Scheduling: Another Project
Over the past nine months or so I have been working with a local company who provides an online service to schedule various types of sporting events. They contacted me after seeing my contact details on wikipedia (which was a nice way to be contacted). The company need to produce double round robin tournaments but […]
MISTA Conference: Plenary Talk (David Hine)
The last plenary at MISTA was given by David Hine. He is a sergeant with the Public Order Unit at New Scotland Yard (in particular Football Intelligence). His talk gave the delegates an overview of the issues and problems he faces in organising resources to police football matches in London, the wider UK and also […]
Football (Soccer) Prediction: Data Collection (#002)
If you have read previous versions of this blog you’ll know that a) I have an interest in trying to predict football (soccer) matches and b) I am currently developing a system (as a research project) that I hope to get up and running in the next month or so. What kept me busy for […]
Football (Soccer) Prediction: Development Framework (#001)
As the new football (soccer in the USA) season approaches I am trying to get a football prediction system up and running. I think I will struggle to get it ready for the start of the new season (which starts Aug 7th) but that is not so important as this is mostly a research project. […]
Football Prediction: Follow up
Whilst searching around the net looking for relevant resources for my plan to predict football matches, I came across The Sports Exchange. It looks like a relatively new web site, but seems very nice. I posted a comment in their blog (about football pools prediction), and received a number of replies. The blog entry can […]
Predicting the Results of Football Matches
I have recently become interested in trying to predict the results of football matches. The interest grew from wondering what else I could use the data for, that I had collected for generating football fixtures (see JORS paper). The data included the travel distances between all the teams in each division. I also maintained the […]
Scheduling Football Fixtures
The fixtures for the English football season have just been published (Wednesday 17th June 2009), ready for the kick off in August. Paul Fletcher’s (another blogger) excellent article describes some of the complexities that have to be considered when generating the fixtures. My research has focused on scheduling the fixtures over the Christmas/New Year period. […]