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Posted onDecember 24, 2023December 24, 2023Uncategorized

NBA Christmas Day Preview 2023

by jdashbrock

Quick notes…. Use these links to skip ahead to your favorite game…Bucks @ Knicks; Warriors @ Nuggets; Celtics @ Lakers; 76ers @ Heat; Mavs @…

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Posted onNovember 12, 2023November 12, 2023Uncategorized

Multicollinearity in Sports and NBA Box Plus Minus

by jdashbrock

Sometimes terms and ideas in math can be quite a mouthful. We have things like endomorphisms and psedofunctors in category theory as well as homoscedasticity…

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Posted onJuly 7, 2023July 7, 2023Uncategorized

What is a Disaster Draft?

by jdashbrock

One of the most bizarre concepts in sports is a disaster draft. It’s macabre to consider; the idea that a professional sports team could lose…

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Posted onApril 19, 2023April 19, 2023Uncategorized

Show don’t Tell with Matplotlib Animations and ImageIO

by jdashbrock

I’ve often found that the best way to convey information is through animations, not static images. In particular, knowing how to make a GIF in…

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Posted onApril 18, 2023April 24, 2023Uncategorized

The Physics of Golf: How Science Can Improve Your Putting

by jdashbrock

Golf is a very analytical game. There are constant discussions of club head speed, green speed, ball aerodynamics, and other things. The physics of golf…

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Posted onFebruary 21, 2023February 21, 2023Uncategorized

Soccer Zones and the Importance of Zone 14

by jdashbrock

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…

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Posted onFebruary 17, 2023February 17, 2023Uncategorized

Expected Goals: What is xG in Soccer?

by jdashbrock

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…

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Posted onDecember 24, 2022December 24, 2022Uncategorized

Curve Fitting with the Tails of Distributions

by jdashbrock

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…

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Posted onDecember 19, 2022December 19, 2022Uncategorized

How Long Does the GOAT in Sports Usually Stay the GOAT?

by jdashbrock

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)…

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Posted onDecember 10, 2022December 10, 2022Uncategorized

Web Scraping Sports Data: Scrape sports.yahoo.com

by jdashbrock

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,…

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