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The Casual Critic’s Complete Guide to Hockey Analytics and Advanced Stats
A comprehensive guide to hockey analytics and advanced stats for those that want to learn more, those who aren’t convinced, and those caught between both worlds.
2022-23 NBA Player Projections
The player projection system identifies similar players throughout NBA history to determine what a current NBA player’s future might look like.
Is Cade Cunningham on the Cusp of a Breakout Second Season?
His progression from the first 40 games last year to his final 24 was evident in his amount of drives and points yielded on them.
Introducing NFL-HHI
NFL-HHI is a metric to measure salary cap concentration among NFL teams. It is useful as a way of condensing multidimensional—that is, 55+-dimensional—data into a single scalar value. Turns out that spending big makes teams mediocre.
Introducing Grid WAR: Rethinking WAR for Starting Pitchers [paper]
The idea is to compute a starter's GWAR for each of his individual games and define a starter's seasonal GWAR as the sum of the GWAR of each of his games. GWAR also accounts for a fundamental baseball principle that not all runs allowed have the same impact in determining the outcome of a game.
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