Continuing to explore the world of soccer analytics, we keep coming across the concept of zones in soccer. Soccer zones refer to a way to…
One of the most important advanced metrics in Soccer is the stat called Expected Goals, abbreviated xG. xG in Soccer is used to measure the…
Curve fitting is all about determining the relationship between two variables. More specifically, fitting a curve to data is about using one observed number to…
You can’t stay king (or queen) forever. The Great One will eventually just become a great one. The title of GOAT (greatest of all time)…
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…