Computing my disc golf power rankings is not a super complicated task, but it does have a few steps. I take a player’s placement in a particular tournament and give it a point value. I then adjust that value based on the tournament tier (major, national tour, ‘A’, ‘A/B’ etc. Excludes everything ‘B’ and below). I then alter the value […]
Each of the major disc manufacturers have attempted to put together a strong stable of players to get out on the courses (and social media) and promote their brands. Which of these teams have found the most tournament success? I totalled the prize money won (as of the end of May, 2021) by sponsored players and this is what I […]
Even though none of us outside of Santa Cruz could watch it live, Masters Cup caused some interesting movement in my world famous 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 check out what all I […]
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 […]
Cornhole, the sport of midwestern American tailgaters, has arrived in Cambodia, kinda. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, meaning you’re in that 80% of my two-person readership [Haven’t gotten to stats yet in my Coursera classes], check out https://www.playcornhole.org/pages/rules for info about the glorious sport of cornhole.) A bar I frequent now has some boards that are getting […]