ASA Roundtable: The One About Home-Field Advantage

ASA Roundtable: The One About Home-Field Advantage

With a break in the MLS Postseason schedule, we here at ASA figured we’d give you something just as good as a second leg (RIP), and a good deal more wholesome than another Toronto/Seattle MLS cup final: another roundtable! This week, our question comes from contributing writer, WOWY inventor, and tactician extraordinaire Cheuk Hei Ho.

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ASA Roundtable: Defensive Actions

ASA Roundtable: Defensive Actions

Here at American Soccer Analysis we try to publish cutting edge articles on soccer that don’t rely on narrative, anecdote, or lazy comparison, preferring instead to rely on data, experimentation, and a ruthless questioning of all of our own previously held beliefs. As you might surmise from this somewhat pompous description, doing that is hard, and our writers have more opinions and insights than we could possibly publish. That is why we are coming out with a new series, the ASA roundtable, a weekly discussion between our contributors on questions facing the soccer and soccer analytics communities today. We look forward to your feedback, and if you want to submit a question just tweet it to @analysisevolved or email us!

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