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Memo's Island: S-shaped data: Smoothing with quasibinomial distribution
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The Rise of Transparent Data Journalism - The BuzzFeed Tennis Match Fixing...
The news today was lead in part by a story broken by the BBC and BuzzFeed News - The Tennis Racket - about match fixing in Grand Slam tennis tournaments. (The BBC contribution seems to have been done...
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Mastering DFS Hoops
Mastering DFS Hoops is a data-driven program to improve your daily fantasy basketball results. You'll learn The math you need to make informed money managemen…See it on Scoop.it, via Fantasy Sports...
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Harris needs to take a stand on fantasy sports
State attorneys general in New York, Illinois and, as of Tuesday, Texas have declared that the high-stakes game of daily fantasy sports is gambling, illegal under their state laws.See it on Scoop.it,...
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A Checkpoint Of Spanish Football League
I am an absolute beginner, but I am absolutely sane (Absolute Beginners, David Bowie) Some time ago I wrote this post, where I predicted correctly the winner of the Spanish Football League several...
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Jim Albert's Baseball Blog - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and...
Jim Albert has a baseball blog: Baseball with R I sent a link internally to people I knew were into baseball, to which Andrew replied, “I agree that it’s cool that he doesn’t just talk, he has code.”...
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Introduction to openWAR Package, Part 1
Ben Baumer and Greg Matthews have a relatively new R package openWAR that facilitates calculation of WAR based on methodology from their recently published paper in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis...
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Introduction to openWAR Package, Part II
If you search for "openWAR" on this blog site, you'll see some posts about the use of the openWAR package in downloading play-by-play MLBAM data and computing WAR statistics for players. In the last...
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Introduction to the openWAR package -- Part 3 (Adjustment)
I'm continuing my discussion of the openWAR methodology implemented in the openWAR package. Specifically, I'll focus on the adjustment issue. To quote from the Baumer, Jensen and Matthews paper (I've...
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Spurs-Warriors Is The Best Defense-Offense Clash In NBA History
Tonight, the unstoppable Golden State Warriors meet the immovable San Antonio Spurs in a showdown between the NBA’s No. 1 offense and its No. 1 defense, two uni…See it on Scoop.it, via Fantasy Sports...
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Cricket analytics with cricketr!!!
My ebook "Cricket analytics with cricketr' has been published in Leanpub. You can now download the book (hot off the press!) for all formats to your favorite device (mobile, iPad, tablet, Kindle)...
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Guide to Football/Soccer data and APIs - Joe Kampschmidt's Code
A list of soccer and football apis, data sets, data services and websites available for developers looking for open data.See it on Scoop.it, via Fantasy Sports Statistics
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Team Shooting Detail By Season - Nylon Calculus
note: backcourt heaves not included in shot attempts. Glossary: “Moreyball” = shots taken at the rim or from three point range RA = Shots taken in the restricted area, i.e. at the rim. 3FGAr = Three...
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So You Want to Build A Hockey Database | WAR On Ice: The Blog
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The Angry Statistician: When is a Lead Safe in the NBA?
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Fox Marks Down Its DraftKings Investment By 60 Percent
Twenty-First Century Fox, which invested $160M in DraftKings over the summer, has written down the investment by about 60 percent, according to its 10-Q filed..See it on Scoop.it, via Fantasy Sports...
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Finding the K in K-means by Parametric Bootstrap
One of the trickier tasks in clustering is determining the appropriate number of clusters. Domain-specific knowledge is always best, when you have it, but there are a number of heuristics for getti…See...
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NBA memo regarding jumping on a player’s back during free throw attempts |...
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How much does a win cost in the NBA?
With the NBA trade deadline days away, money is in the forefront of many a basketball fan's mind. The nuances of the NBA players' Collective Bargaining Agreement, salary caps, luxury taxes, and the...
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