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First of all, I stand by everything I said in my previous post about Football Outsiders, but I guess there is more to add. Turns out that there is a student here who used to intern for Football Outsiders, and he pointed me to the methods section on their website where they say this: Field goal kicking…
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(Update: October 13, 2013 – See the full analysis here) I was reading the Football Outsiders basics, and I got to this part about field goal kickers: Field-goal percentage is almost entirely random from season to season, while kickoff distance is one of the most consistent statistics in football. This theory, which originally appeared in the New York…
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I’ve recently converted to R Studio for R package development and I love it. As someone who doesn’t really understand the details of git, it makes git incredibly easy to use (And git is DEFINITELY worth using!) However, when you check a package in R for upload to CRAN, you need to use the –as-cran…
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Cheers.
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Deadspin announced today on their website that they are starting something called “Regressing“. They describe it as “Deadspin in a lab coat.” This sounds awesome. Cheers.
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The NFL sent out this memo to its fans this morning. It’s too much to take. Here, I dive in. The NFL season is off to another exciting and competitive start. Well, not quite. The Jaguars measure as the worst team through four games in recent NFL history, and the Broncos have been so good that Yahoo! contemplated what the point-spread…
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One of my students tweeted this at me today. I think it is awesome. But I suppose this also means they aren’t paying attention to me. But still, this is awesome. So I guess it’s ok that they aren’t paying attention if they are creating brilliant images like this. Argggghhhhhhh and Cheers.
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About two weeks ago, I used some familiar metrics to analyze how analytics-based websites performed as far as predicting MLB win totals. With the regular season now complete, winning bets have been cashed, and the official performance for each site is listed below: O/U: The Hilton’s over/under for each team BP: Baseball prospectus TR: Team Rankings (caveat…
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Check out this graphic from the New York Times. Eli Manning has now started 150 games in a row for the Giants. That’s pretty hard to grasp. Cheers.
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I attended the New England Symposium of Statistics in Sports (NESSIS) last Saturday at Harvard Science Center (See the sweet logo below) where I presented a poster. The conference was organized by Mark Glickman and Scott Evans Scott Evans My poster (see below) was about openWAR, which is a project I am working on with Ben…
