Armchair Analyst: What we've learned from Opta

A friend of mine is engaged to a mathematician, a lovely girl who?s pursuing a doctorate in number-crunching.

Over lunch on Thursday afternoon, I brought up the partnership MLS has with Opta, the rise of soccermetrics and some of the stats we?ve put together through the season?s first several weeks.

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