On Forbes - FootballrRating.com's Attempt to Move Us Toward A Unified Theory of Soccer

I am still catching up on being way behind on cross posting from my Forbes account. A few weeks ago I had the privilege of interviewing the team at Chimu Solutions that is responsible for building the FootballrRating.com site. The site is based upon a player rating system developed in the aftermath of Euro 2008 by a group of Northwestern University researchers, and now those researchers are working with Chumu Solutions to monetize the model. This post profiles the model's background as well as the group's ambitious efforts to make the model useful to clubs and agents while also understandable to the casual user who may be looking for an edge in their fantasy soccer league. Have a look at what they're working on, and see if you can supply some feedback to them on the site's user interface or how they evaluate players. That's the goal of their work - take the risk of putting a model out there, and collect the critical feedback needed to improve it.

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