Our mission here is education.
Education so you can make better soccer decisions and have more sophisticated, well-grounded opinions.
I think it boils down to two main components:
- The soft skills. Specifically, a continual and unvarnished discussion of soccer philosophy that reflects the values of the greatest teams, players, and managers in the world.
- The hard data.
The second component is why we started our soccer data product. And today, we’ve realeased a further refinement – a simple visualization to quickly assess what age groups, at what level of play, and for what gender a coach has experience in.
Raw Data
So now when you search for a coach, instead of only being able to inspect a raw data table like this:
Visual
You can quickly glean insight from the following visuals:
p.s. 3four3’s product currently displays a select sample of data from Southern California. This is our testbed. Expansion and opening up the dataset to other competitions will come. Give us a hand with your feedback so we build the best possible tool for you!
coach juggles says
Hey Gary,
Not sure if you follow any of the soccer america newsletters. Here is a recent one with some insight into the pay-to-play situation and the academy
http://www.socceramerica.com/article/45734/not-every-kid-wants-to-play-high-school-qa-lei.html
Jaime says
Gary,
Will you be incorporating SCDSL data as well? A lot of top players/coaches seem to disappear from the charts last season when they moved to the
Gary Kleiban says
Yes, that’s definitely in the plans.
janet doe says
hello,,, when will 2011 data be published?