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Mr. Consistency
Who are the most consistent scorers in the NBA? This is a question of some interest for those who participate in fantasy leagues, as consistency might be a virtue in determining the value of a player...
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Predicting the future, by analogy
Many times before, I’ve posted network diagrams which I suggest highlight objective similarities between athletes, according only to their statistical production. I’ve also noted that one of the most...
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NBA playing style spectrum
Many conversations about sports revolve around comparisons of quality — team A is better than team B, player X is the best of all time, this draftee will help his team more than that one, etc. For this...
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The best of the WNBA, updated daily
Borrowing from the extremely useful DougStats, and making use of Google Docs, I present a (more-or-less) daily-updated list of the 100 most valuable WNBA players, using the BoxScores methodology. WNBA...
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Estimating team chemistry
I posted recently to introduce a new method of characterizing basketball playing styles, which I call the SPI Style Trichotomy. The advantage of this methodology is, among other things, that it is an...
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Change of venue
Folks, starting today, I’ll be writing a weekly post on Thursdays, over at Hardwood Paroxysm. I’m likely to continue posting here, although frequency might drop a little bit. If you would like to...
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Assigning credit to Team USA
During the NBA Finals, I made an effort to estimate player contributions to the final score, using Model-Estimated value, and a metric which I unimaginatively called “Credit.” MEV is a linear-weighting...
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Even more quiet
See here. It’s going to be even more quiet around here than usual. Thanks to everyone for reading and contributing your ideas.
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For the record
Point projection: Obama’s percent of the nationwide two-party vote: 52.47%
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New Blog
Though this blog is no longer being updated, I am now writing on political science and information visualization at dsparks.wordpress.com.
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