American Soccer Analysis
American Soccer Analysis is a niche sports outlet dedicated to data-driven coverage of soccer in the United States.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 11
- Latest publication
- Aug 23, 2026
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- Top 10M sites
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- Jul 9, 2026
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Replication Project-ish: Projecting MLS Performance based on MLS Next Pro Data (opens the original)
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By Kieran Doyle In 2022, Daniel Dinsdale and Joe Gallagher of Stats Perform (the artist formerly known as Opta) released an arXiv of a paper titled “Transfer Portal: Accurately Forecasting the Impact of a Player Transfer in Soccer”. The paper is a worthwhile read, but the idea can sort of be summed up as the three approaches. 1. Identify how the player is currently doing on a per 90’ basis, for the metrics you care about. 2. Identify how their team and league fits into the global hierarchy, in r
Scream and Shout: an xClaim Model for Goalkeeper Cross Collection (opens the original)
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By Kieran Doyle Ever since we built goals added (g+) oh so many years ago, I’ve largely been unhappy with how we’ve treated goalkeepers here at ASA. ASA, the masterful puppeteer in the shadows crafting the rise of Matt Turner and Djordje Petrovic to the Premier League, letting them down! And so, my fellow analytics practitioners, ask not what your goalkeeper can do for you, but what you can do for your goalkeeper. ASA and the analytics community at large has gotten to a pretty good place with go
Scream and Shout: an xClaim Model for Goalkeeper Cross Collection (opens the original)
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By Kieran Doyle Ever since we built goals added (g+) oh so many years ago, I’ve largely been unhappy with how we’ve treated goalkeepers here at ASA. ASA, the masterful puppeteer in the shadows crafting the rise of Matt Turner and Djordje Petrovic to the Premier League, letting them down! And so, my fellow analytics practitioners, ask not what your goalkeeper can do for you, but what you can do for your goalkeeper. ASA and the analytics community at large has gotten to a pretty good place with go
A New Goalkeeper Metric: Clean Sheets Earned (CSE) (opens the original)
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By David Almona At the end of a season in soccer, the Golden Glove is awarded to the goalkeeper that has kept the most clean sheets. It seems intuitive, as being the last line of defense, their job is mainly to stop any shots that make it past the defense from entering the goal. However, a clean sheet is when the team prevents their opponent from scoring, not just the goalkeeper; it’s a team effort.
A New Goalkeeper Metric: Clean Sheets Earned (CSE) (opens the original)
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By David Almona At the end of a season in soccer, the Golden Glove is awarded to the goalkeeper that has kept the most clean sheets. It seems intuitive, as being the last line of defense, their job is mainly to stop any shots that make it past the defense from entering the goal. However, a clean sheet is when the team prevents their opponent from scoring, not just the goalkeeper; it’s a team effort.
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