With the circus that is the Earthquakes’ sideline getting all the attention, you may have missed the arrival of Guram Kashia from Vitesse Arnhem of the Eredivisie to help solve the center back woes on a team with a lot…
Victor Bernardez and Clarence Goodson set the bar for Earthquakes center backs
PHOTO: Lyndsay Radnedge/LRadiCal Photography With the recent signing of center back Guram Kashia, captain of the Georgian national team and from Vitesse of the Dutch Eredivisie, and with the ongoing back line carousel of the San Jose Earthquakes this not-so-great…
Is Zone 14 defending the biggest issue facing the San Jose Earthquakes?
PHOTO: ISI Photos Following a disheartening California Clasico loss to the Zlatan-less LA Galaxy, 1-0, on Friday night courtesy of an out-of-the-box strike from Romain Alessandrini and a stellar save amidst a less-than-stellar season from deposed goalkeeper David Bingham, last Sunday…
What Expected Goals tells us about the 2018 Quakes so far
The Expected Goals (xG) metric is the all the rage in soccer analytics right now. To some, xG is the Swiss army knife of metrics: it can be used for everything from predicting game outcomes, to setting fantasy lineups, to…
New Data Analysis from Quakes Epicenter
Data analysis has changed sports forever. Sandy Alderson, the first baseball general manager credited with taking a quantitative approach to baseball, focused on principles known as “sabermetrics”. Sabermetrics in baseball say a large part of a player’s value is based…