Weekly Sports Analytics News Roundup – December 1, 2015
Football: FiveThirtyEight offers a A Crash Course In NFL Rushing Stats podcast. FiveThirtyEight reports The Panthers Are The Worst Team To Ever Start 11-0. The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective talks about The Value of Dion Lewis.
Baseball: FanGraphs with The Worst Opposite-Field Hitter on Record. FanGraphs unveils The Best Young Pitcher in the World. FanGraphs’ KATOH’s Top 100 Prospect List for 2016. BeyondTheBoxScore says Danny Darwin had the most clutch season ever recorded.
Basketball: From Jacob Rosen, for Nylon Calculus, Statistical Spotlight: Rajon Rondo is doing Rajon Rondo things in Sacramento. FiveThirtyEight explains How The Golden State Warriors Are Breaking The NBA. FiveThirtyEight gives An Ode To Kobe Bryant, In Two Charts. Nylon Calculus delivers Up and Down: Player Improvement and Regression by BPM.
College basketball: Ken Pomeroy’s Week in Review. Nylon Calculus with The r-squared Podcast: Episode 22 with Ken Pomeroy,
Soccer: AmericanSoccerAnalysis with its 2015 Final PScore: What happens when both teams high press? StatsBomb: Best of November.
Your moment of R: Brian Mills and Jim Albert, on BaseballWithR, explain the Retrosheet package for R and look at its capabilities.
Conferences: Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2016 tickets are on sale now. Seeking nominations for 2016 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards.