Tag Archives: Sports
Slides from Rocky Mtn SABR Meeting
Last Saturday I had the good fortune to present a talk on finding, gathering, and analyzing some sports-related data on the web at the local SABR group meeting. In case you’re not familiar with the “SABR” acronym, it stands for … Continue reading
Filed under Data Mining, Data Science, ggplot2, R, Scraping Data, Sports
My Crappy Fantasy Football Draft
I compared the results of my fantasy football draft with the results of more than 1500 mock drafts at the Fantasy Football Calculator (FFC). I looked at where player X was drafted in our league, subtracted off the average draft … Continue reading
A Rule Change in Major League Soccer?
I have to admit that working with my Major League Soccer data set has been slow going. There are a few reasons: (1) I have a full-time job at the National Renewable Energy Lab and (2) the data isn’t quite … Continue reading