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What Exactly Do You Know?
(This post was inspired, in part, by a post Matt Waldman posted on his website a few days ago. If you haven’t already, go check out his site. He does an amazing job over there. The post in question is...
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What Exactly Do You Know, Part II: The “Is He Your Cousin or Something?” Edition
In last week’s post, I discussed the concept of what statistical inference actually tells you and how it’s boring and cumbersome to talk about it accurately, so analysts often shorten the conversation...
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What Exactly Do We Know Part III: The Nightmare Edition
This will be the final installment in my “What Exactly Do We Know” series. I think I’ve beat this horse enough that it’s about to fall over. But I need to talk about one final aspect of statistical...
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Quarterback Carousel
First off, happy Veterans Day, Grandpas. I miss you both. Now to football. The quarterback carousel continues to spin. Everyone wants to know about how their team will do now that the new quarterback...
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Wide Receivers are a Pain to Evaluate: Part I
My original plan for a post this week was to talk about college football wide receivers and who I think is having the most productive season in college football right now. But I ran into a problem....
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Analytics in Washington
Tony Kornheiser made some interesting statements on the radio the other day regarding what the organization in Washington D.C. should do about their terrible football team. You can read a more in depth...
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It’s Manziel Time
It’s Manziel time in Cleveland. I’ve discussed what I think of Cleveland in other posts. The short story is that I think the decisions of the Cleveland Browns front office resemble those a robot with a...
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Are You My Mother?
One of my daughter’s favorite books is Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman. In the book, a baby bird hatches while its mother is away finding food. The bird decides to leave the nest in search of its...
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Building a Better Box Score
What is the most common line present in any analytics-based article/post/discussion of the game of football? My answer is some version of “Analytics in football are more difficult/impossible/can’t be...
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Using ICCs to Calculate the Effect of the Quarterback
Last time I discussed the importance of correctly modeling the game you are interested if you want to address the problem of data analysis in football. If you are new to the blog, I would suggest...
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