Weekly Sports Analytics News Roundup – December 29, 2015
Football: Cris Collinsworth liked using Pro Football Focus, so he bought it. FiveThirtyEight says Bill Belichick’s Call Wasn’t Entirely Stupid while The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective thinks Belichick Might Have Been Wrong (For Once).
College Football: Football Study Hall on Which playoff team has the most valuable experience.
Baseball: Best of Baseball Prospectus 2015: Shifting Shifts to the Outfield by Chris Mosch and The Actual Facts of the GM Demographic Shift by Dustin Palmateer. Alan Nathan, via The Hardball Times, with Optimizing the Swing, Part Deux: Paying Homage to Teddy Ballgame. The Hardball Times Uses WAR to Remember Forgotten Greats.
Basketball: Hardwood Paroxysm with The best thing I wrote this year. FiveThirtyEight says Adam Silver Is Not A Fan Of The Sixers’ Strategy. Hardwood Paroxysm says The Philadelphia 76ers refusal to buy in has doomed them.
College Basketball: Nylon Calculus on Draft Prospects to Watch. Nylon Calculus with Draw It Up, Talk it Over: NCAA ATO Efficiency.
Soccer: StatsBomb with Arsenal, Home or Away And Same Old Pulis. American Soccer Analysis with A Less Hot Take Approach To Evaluating MLS Centerbacks. StatsBomb on Talent In The League: Nathan Redmond And Watford. StatsBomb on Hatem Ben Arfa: Ligue 1’s Smoke and Mirrors show. StatsBomb on Meat, Potatoes And 4-4-bleeping-2.
Check out these Pythons: Dan Vatterott blog post on Creating NBA Shot Charts with Python.
Conferences: The International Conference on Football Science is January 4-5 in Antalya, Turkey. Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2016 tickets are on sale now. Seeking nominations for 2016 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards.