Advanced player data from NHL.com available here!
February 23, 2015
As you may have seen, the NHL rolled out an update to their player statistics pages over the weekend. I have a couple ideas of things that I’d like to use the data for, so I spent the afternoon putting together a cleaned up version of the data....
Do the stats look different in outdoor NHL games?
February 19, 2015
I wrote an article today for Deadspin where I asked the question, do the stats in outdoor and indoor NHL games look different from each other. When you compare all games, there’s some differences in the number of shots, faceoffs, and penalties. But once you account for the...
My poster presentation for the ESPN/Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
February 16, 2015
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ve been invited to present some of my research at the ESPN/MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. I’ll be giving a 20 minute presentation during the conference, as well as having my work displayed as a poster. I’m still working on...
Earlier today I published an article today for FiveThirtyEight about the college football programs which over and underachieved given their recruiting success. In the article I only looked at schools in the Power-5 conferences. I had a handful of people on Twitter ask what the results look like...
I wrote an article today for FiveThirtyEight about college football and National Signing Day. I compared the four-year average recruiting class to how well each school did on the field (measured using Massey ratings). Here’s a snippet from the article.
“I looked at how well schools’ recruiting classes...