2022 MLS Season Previews: Atlanta United FC, Houston Dynamo FC, Minnesota United FC
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2022 MLS Season Previews: Austin FC, CF Montréal, and Charlotte FC
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The 2022 MLS season is nearly upon us! We’ll be publishing three team previews every weekday until the MLS season opens on Saturday, February 26, 2022.
Read MoreIntroducing itscalledsoccer
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By Tyler Richardett and Brian Greenwood
For the latter half of 2021, American Soccer Analysis has been working on an R and Python library to make it easier to programmatically interact with our data. Today, we are happy to announce the release of the library which we've dubbed itscalledsoccer . If you want to get started right away, the library is available for download from CRAN and PyPI, and the source code can be found here.
In this article, we'll talk a bit about how we built the library and walk through a basic example or two.
Read MoreBob Bradley: Possession, Pressing, and Personnel
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Heading into Toronto on a snowy December day in past years may have had visitors buzzing about the state of BMO Field’s snowy pitch in preparation for an MLS Cup final. For now, there is just roster talk. Roster talk, and manager talk. Enter Bradley. Not the old Bradley we’ve come to know and love, but the even older Bradley who is new to us.
Read MoreHow Away Teams Win in MLS (and how to be like them)
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Short answer? They don't win. Or at least not enough. This has been discussed ad nauseum on the interwebs for a while, but the MLS home field advantage is the strongest of any of the five major professional sports in the US.
Not only that, it is considered one of the strongest home field advantages in professional soccer.
Read MorePriors and Penalties: Finding the best penalty takers with Bayes
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It’s MLS playoff time, and that means the possibility of penalties and shootouts. Rodrigo Schlegel led Orlando to victory after Pedro Gallese was sent off. Zack Steffen earned a move to Manchester City, in large part, due to leading Columbus to two penalty shootout victories. Portland named a bar in Providence Park after the famous double post shot in the marathon 2015 shootout against Sporting KC. Seattle won their first MLS Cup without registering a shot on goal by winning a shootout. Landon Donovan blasted his penalty over the bar to hand RSL the 2009 MLS Cup. Penalties and shootouts are remembered in ways that few other plays are.
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