So I was chatting in a Clubhouse room the other day and someone said the craziest thing… (BTW I love me my Clubhouse) He said that he had read somewhere that there was actually no home field advantage in football (soccer). There may be some tilting in results toward home teams, but… p-values… not statistically significant… yadayada… This I found […]
Here I work with play-by-play data through the Australian Football League’s week 21 (795,944 rows of data) to look at how much individual players’ disposals contribute to scoring.1 I take two different approaches. First, I look at how many points disposals translate into. For each player who has at least 400 disposals this year, how many points are scored, on […]
Your first reaction when hearing this question will probably be “of course, duh” (or “What is AFL?” if you misclicked). You have to think that the team coming away with the ball the most would score the most points in general. With this project I wanted to see if the data supported what seems to be kind of obvious. The […]
Pythagorean expectation, attributed to baseball statistician Bill James is a formula originally used to describe a relationship between the number of runs a baseball team scores and allows, and the team’s winning percentage. The basic formula is… Winning Percentage = (Runs Scored)2/((Runs Scored)2 + (Runs Allowed)2) For example1 , the 2002 New York Yankees scored 897 runs and allowed 697. […]
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 […]
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 […]