Big weekend in disc golf. US Women’s Championships for the women, and watching the US Women’s Championships for the men. Some definite movement in my most glorious of power rankings. (If you are a data science type, I used some beautiful soup, pandas, SQL… y’know. Stuff like that. And, no, I didn’t use them well. I tried though. You can […]
And we are back. After a weekend where most of top players were out in Stockton for the OTB Open, there is some movement in the top tens, but nothing too wild. (If you are a data science type, I used some beautiful soup, pandas, SQL… y’know. Stuff like that. And, no, I didn’t use them well. I tried though. […]
(Data Science people: I did this with pandas and SQL in a Jupyter notebook. You can take a look at my github. It ain’t pretty though. The graphs below were matplotlib) (All data used in creating these rankings is publically available at pdga.com) Disc Golf Fans… It was a weekend where the best in the land were spread out across […]
Man I learned a lot doing this project. So… more stuff I learned (or re-learned), when making my disc golf power rankings happen (part 1 is here)… So I have a list of lists, how do I get the name of list instead of its contents? So, for some reason I wanted to make a list of lists of the […]
Ok. Maybe that’s a disingenuous title. Basically I sat in the darkness of my apartment, while my girlfriend wondered what was wrong with me, and typed stuff into a jupyter notebook. Then I commented that out and typed something else. Then I gave my screen a dirty look. Then I realized I typed a period instead of an underscore. Repeat. […]
So about a week ago, this dude Mckay Johns started popping up on my social media feeds talking about sports, and analytics, and sports analytics, and stuff like that. My mind started racing… and here we are. A bunch of days with minimal sleep and an angry girlfriend later… power rankings. (Disc golf talk incoming… if you have arrived here […]