Predictions for how NBA players will contribute to their teams, based on their own performance and history.
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NBA player career projections
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Maps to understand tennis
Damien Saunder, a cartographer at ESRI, likes to use mapping methods to evaluate…
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Bayesian fantasy football 101
Because of course.
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Extracting NBA player movement data
There’s no direct download, but there is an API.
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Denver Broncos testing in-game analytics
Analytics continues its spread into the various facets of sports. Just recently, the…
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Ascent in the Tour de France
I was flipping through the channels the other night and happened on the…
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See a 150mph tennis serve to your face
Hawk-Eye is a collection of technologies that allows high-granularity sports tracking, most notably…
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U.S. women’s soccer gameplan
I know next to nothing about soccer. Like there’s nothing, and then I’m…
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Madden ratings formula
In football video game Madden, NFL players are scored based on skill, which…
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Gambler’s perspective on sports team win probabilities
Michael Beuoy’s win probability model plotted on FiveThirtyEight starts all NBA teams at…
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Questionable fumble statistics for Deflate-Gate
A data-centric look at New England Patriots fumble rates at home made the…
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Using baseball bats to display data
When a baseball player is hitting well, commentators will sometimes say that it…
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Visual summary of skateboarding tournament
George Murphy visualized the results of this year’s skateboarding tournament Battle at the…
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F1 racing winners and age
So here’s a sport I don’t see or hear much about. F1 racing,…
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How basketball rebounds work
Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…
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Director of Basketball Analytics. Must know Excel
When you hear about sports analytics in the news or when announcers talk…
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FuelBand Fibers visualizes daily activities beautifully
Leading up to a Nike women’s 10k run, design studio Variable made FuelBand…
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Spiky betting odds during LeBron James decision →
LeBron James decided to head back to Cleveland, so naturally the odds that…
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xkcd: Dominant players in chess and basketball →
I’m pretty sure xkcd is the only one who gets away with showing…
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Clubs that connect World Cup national teams →
Gregor Aisch for the New York Times explored how the soccer clubs that…