I just published The 2013 NFL Draft Expert Grades Visualized by Team and Round and received a lot of great feedback. I’ve created another version of that dashboard to display how much value each team was able to obtain based…
UPDATE: I’ve received a lot of feedback to extend this analysis into a relative value one in order to answer the question “Which teams received the most value given their available picks?” That post is here: The 2013 NFL Draft…
If you’re a sabermetrics geek you’ll definitely want to check out Carson Sievert’s pitchRx package. You can scrape all PitchFX data since 2008, visualize strikezones, create interactive 3D pitch charts and a lot more. The below example pulls Jon Lester’s…
I came across a table of stats depicting how aggressively (or not) NFL teams have drafted OLs over the past 5 years. I thought it would be interesting to overlay Win % over the last 5 years with the draft…
We’ve all been surprised at the Celtics’ performance without Rondo lately, but is it just a coincidence or does his absence actually bring about an improved team chemistry? The sample size may be small (11 games all season without Rondo…
UPDATE: Post-Game Prediction Results Despite the Superbowl power outage I managed to track all of the Ravens’ pass/run plays during the game while making my own predictions with the Play Predictor tool. The Play Predictor was most accurate during the…
In preparation for an upcoming talk at the Microsoft NERD center on R and Tableau integration, I created a dashboard in Tableau to measure the predictability of the Baltimore Ravens offense. I’ll use this tool during the Superbowl to attempt…
Now that the NHL is finally starting and the lockout is over, I’ve been involved in 3 different fantasy hockey drafts. I thought it would be fun to scrape data from NHL.com for the 2011-2012 season and pre-rank my players…
I had the 2009 PitchFX data handy, so thought I would come up with a way to visualize the Red Sox Pitching Matchups from the 2009 season. The coordinates used below are described in more depth here: MLB PITCHf/x Data.…
This chart shows the number of passing completions (top) and incompletions (bottom) by Tom Brady (penalties excluded), the receiver and pass type [deep | short + left | right | middle]. Unfortunately the deep ball is not Brady’s specialty anymore,…
