sports

Damien Saunder, a cartographer at ESRI, likes to use mapping methods to evaluate…

Because of course.

There’s no direct download, but there is an API.

Analytics continues its spread into the various facets of sports. Just recently, the…

I was flipping through the channels the other night and happened on the…

Hawk-Eye is a collection of technologies that allows high-granularity sports tracking, most notably…

I know next to nothing about soccer. Like there’s nothing, and then I’m…

In football video game Madden, NFL players are scored based on skill, which…

Michael Beuoy’s win probability model plotted on FiveThirtyEight starts all NBA teams at…

A data-centric look at New England Patriots fumble rates at home made the…

When a baseball player is hitting well, commentators will sometimes say that it…

George Murphy visualized the results of this year’s skateboarding tournament Battle at the…

So here’s a sport I don’t see or hear much about. F1 racing,…

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…

When you hear about sports analytics in the news or when announcers talk…

Leading up to a Nike women’s 10k run, design studio Variable made FuelBand…

LeBron James decided to head back to Cleveland, so naturally the odds that…

I’m pretty sure xkcd is the only one who gets away with showing…

Gregor Aisch for the New York Times explored how the soccer clubs that…

Football players are getting bigger. Noah Veltman, a developer for the WNYC Data…