The Soccer Analytics Club, which was established during the 2018-19 academic year in the Department of Sport Management, meets weekly discussing all things related to soccer, including college and professionals teams, leagues and organizations.

In 2019-20, the club mainly focused on its research element, creating a model to predict outcomes of soccer games in the top five European Leagues and measured the success of the model against betting market odds. The club also continued its project of creating Real Plus Minus statistics for English Premier League players. Meetings feature guest speakers and industry executives.

Students are using various statistical methods, including logistic regression, to understand which factors aid the Le Moyne College men’s soccer team in scoring more goals and allowing less goals. The group will also assist the team by breaking games into different splits, including home versus away, and in conference versus out of conference, to further discover tendencies in performance.

Club members created visualizations about their research. Find examples on Twitter @CuseAnalytics.

Officers for the 2020-2021 academic year are Kushal Shah, president; Drew DiSanto, vice president; James Hyman, treasurer; and Dominic Samangy, social media manager. For more information, email Shah at kshah07@syr.edu. The club meets weekly during the academic year, and meetings are open to all Syracuse University students.