Category: Sports
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First off, for the R nerds out there, (If you don’t care about R, skip to the next paragraph) I’m quickly becoming a huge fan of ggplot2. Below is an example of combining a facet grid with pie charts using polar coordinates. Pretty cool. (I know most graphics people hate pie charts, but I think…
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Here is a graph of the ATP points for the top 8 tennis players in the world since 2009. It’s interesting to note that since 2009, Andy Murray has been ranked above each of Nadal, Djokovic, and Federer at some point, but never above them all at once. Also, over that same time period n0one…
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About a week ago, Roger Federer won his seventh Wimbledon title, which ties Pete Sampras, and his 17 Grand Slam title overall, extending that record even further. Less (more?) importantly, Mr. Federer regains the ranking of number 1 in the word by the slimmest of margins (11075 to 11000) over Novak Djokovic. Here is my…
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So, last Monday I posted some Olympics boxplots, and then I left for the week to go golfing with my father (We play 7 rounds in 4 days, you take your best score on each hole, add them up and declare a winner. I won 66-68 this year. Pops now leads the all-time series 3-2). When…
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[7/23/2012 Addition: I’ve updated these plots using ggplot2 to look nicer. They can be found here.] Recently, I saw this pretty cool chart at the Washington Post (I originally saw the chart at this wonderful blog here) about the ages of olympians from the past three olympics. I commented to myself that I thought it would be…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of July 9, 2012 at 1:22pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 ↑1 52-33 1 1 4 +65 Texas 2 ↓1 52-34 2 2 13 +79 LA Angels 3 ↑1 48-38 4 4 11 +44 ChiSox 4 ↑2 47-38 6 5 14 +63…
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