Trevor Stevenson

The End of the US Development Academy

On April 15, 2020, US Soccer announced that it is ending the US Development Academy. The program has been around in US soccer for over 13 years. In a post on their official blog, US soccer cited financial difficulties exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for the termination of the program. The US… Read More »

The Difficulty of Statistically Analyzing Match Performance

Soccer is one of the most difficult sports to analyze from a statistical perspective. Over the past decade, data analytics has taken the sports world by storm. This is largely because sports fans have become more accustomed to advanced data analysis, and the tools available to analysts have exploded in the last 10 years. From… Read More »