There is a surprisingly large – at least to me – online community devoted to Hockey analytics. While I am far from a Hockey expert,…
Because of the break in the action, I took the time to update my college basketball rankings in order to make my March Madness predictions…
Not a single sporting event causes more debate, excitement, talk of ‘strength of schedule’, and interest in analytics as March Madness. Every budding data scientist…
Boiling everything down, success in the NBA can be directly linked to offensive efficiency and defensive efficiency. We’ll directly study these concepts with a new…
Different NBA teams play at different paces. Many different NBA pace stats exist, but how can we predict the pace of an upcoming game? Do…
For those of us who wish the general public to better appreciate mathematics, there are few opportunities that present a better setting than large, commonly…
In Major League Baseball, arbitration is a process used to determine the salary of young players that are still under team control. Most simply, the…
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2020 NBA Power Rankings Designing ways to generate power rankings for a particular league is one of the most important problems in sports analytics. About…
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Every sports manager is tasked with making decisions. Typically, they rely on years of experience and expertise in order to make the best decisions possible.…
Everyone talks about models in sports but not nearly as many people realize that ensemble learning in sports is something we have unwittingly been doing…