With its 2-1 win away against Paris Saint-Germain last Wednesday, Manchester City took another step toward lifting its first ever Champions League trophy. Two crucial away goals at the Parc des Princes mean that City has a near vice-like grip on at least a finals berth, while the FiveThirtyEight club soccer predictions model gives it […]
FiveThirtyEight’s club soccer prediction model favored Manchester City to win the Champions League for most of the 2019-20 season. The Cityzens were so good, in fact, that they spent 62 percent of the season at the top of the model’s probability table. Only Liverpool (the current holders of both the Champions League and Premier League […]
The Premier League season is barely halfway over, but the title basically could be decided this week. Right now, Liverpool has a 7-point lead over Manchester City at the top of the table. The two teams face off Thursday at Etihad Stadium in Manchester, and a Liverpool victory would result in a likely insurmountable 10-point […]
At Boston’s annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the main focus is on U.S. sports. But people come from all over the sporting world, and the globe, to exchange ideas and learn about what’s happening in the major U.S. sports. This was important enough for FC Bayern Munich, one of the best practitioners of the […]
Subscribe to our sports podcast “Hot Takedown” on iTunes here. At Boston’s annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the main focus is on U.S. sports. But people come from all over the sporting world, and the globe, to exchange ideas and learn about what’s happening in the major U.S. sports. This was important enough for […]
