Thank You!

I wanted to take a minute to thank all of my readers for their continued support and for lack of a better way to express it, their clicks.  For the last 2+ years you've helped me grow in both my writing and analytical skills, and the result has been the continual growth in opportunities I've realized through this medium.  When I started out in April 2010 I had no idea where this would go.  I was just trying to make sense of a new sport that I loved, one that has a rich history with which I needed to catch up if I were to understand the game as it is today and how it's continually evolving with every match played.

Two months ago I started writing at Forbes.com.  I didn't know what to expect.  Perhaps the visibility of my writing would go up a bit given the network that Forbes has.  Maybe in the first few months I would make a few bucks in beer money.  I was hoping to grow it into something that would help offset the costs associated with travel to the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference or my recent visit to ESPN.  Other than that, I had few expectations.  These first two months have surpassed my wildest dreams.  Over 15,000 total visitors came by my Forbes site in June alone, with more than 32,000 total page views generated.  This easily surpassed my best month ever at this site.

Thank you so much for your readership, your feedback, and your interactions on services like Twitter and Facebook.  Your support and constant dialogue are what sustain my drive to provide ever better content.  The level of readership is what gives me the "journalistic heft" to have the opportunities like covering how ESPN integrated statistics into their Euro 2012 coverage.  It's an experience I'll never forget, and it's due in large part to your readership and demand for such content.  Thank you.

Now it's time to get back to writing.  Tottenham Hotspur has a new manager that needs to be analyzed...