By: Manthan Koolwal (Author Bio Below) Web Scraping data is required for performance analytics. You can find this data on websites like NBA, FIFA, NFL,…
From the classical application in professional chess to FiveThirtyEight’s basketball and baseball models to even online esports and gaming like League of Legends, the Elo…
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I claim that in fantasy football, median points scored is a better metric for evaluating player quality than mean points scored is. A player with…
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In a nutshell, the timeline of an analytics project goes: start with a question or idea, formulate a method to study this question, web scraping…
In honor of the recently completed 2021 World Chess Championship, I wanted to take the opportunity to analyze Chess Elo ratings in order to see…
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…
I spoke to an old friend of mine, Harry Wahl, yesterday on his podcast, Pod is Life. We discussed everything analytics including the baseball restart,…
Barry Bonds has been intentionally walked more than twice as much as any other player in the history of baseball. Even if you just account…