Expected points in the NFL is the amount of points a team is expected to score on the current drive. Expected points added or EPA…
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In the article here, we introduced the sparse impacts model. This NBA model is our attempt at creating a simple yet effective way to predict…
The Sparse Impacts Model (SIM) is the second iteration of The Data Jocks’ NBA model. Some NBA models assign ratings to teams. An entirely different…
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…
Sabermetrics and baseball analytics are all about questioning traditional wisdom with data. We challenge traditional wisdom, long held beliefs. This is precisely why sabermetrics are…
It’s a fun argument, especially between fans of different teams, to determine the best college basketball conference. I love this topic of conversation for two…
FIP in baseball is the result of a relatively new analytics push to separate pitcher impacts from defense impacts. FIP stands for Fielding Independent Pitching.…
All sports analytics tries to predict the true quality of a team. One of the simplest models to do this is the technique called Pythagorean…
Nearly every data scientist or sports analyst has learned a painful first-hand lesson about data leakage. Let me paint a picture. You come up with…