Issue 62  

Welcome

62nd issue.

NFL season has kicked off. College football entering a snoozy week 2. Two MLB articles to accommodate the three football-related ones. Enjoy!

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This Week's Lineup

Machine Learning Fantasy Football Analytics

Uses the XGBoost machine learning model to carry out predictions for the 2022 fantasy football season.

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2022 NFL Predictions

Bills, Bucs, Pack, Chefs (IYKYK).

fivethirtyeight.com

Which Basketball Schools Are Pretending To Be Football Schools?

A topic that fan bases love to debate. Elo rankings to settle the debate.

fivethirtyeight.com

Learning About Hitting Ability Using Components of Batting Average

Illustrates the use of a new R package ggdensity that provides useful graphical displays of bivariate data.

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The best positioned outfields in MLB

Almost a month old but still refreshing to see the Tigers listed towards the top. Other teams not too surprising.

sportsinfosolutions.com

What I'm Watching

Football is fully back. It's NFL and College all weekend long. Few games to note:

College:

  • Tennessee @ Pittsburgh
  • Kentucky @ Florida
  • Baylor @ BYU
  • Iowa State @ Iowa

Pros:

  • Bills @ Rams
  • Chiefs @ Cardinals
  • Bucs @ Cowboys

Weekly Unexpected Quote

“Don't complain. About anything. Not even to yourself.”

Ösel Tendzin

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