Weekly Sports Analytics News Roundup – January 17th, 2017
Football: Football Outsiders Stat History: RB Rushing DYAR vs. YAR Records. FiveThirtyEight says That Cowboys-Packers Game Was As Great As It Seemed. The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective writes that Underdog Status Rarely Impacts Fourth Down Aggressiveness. FiveThirtyEight points out that NFL Coaches Yell At Refs Because It Freakin’ Works.
College Football: Football Study Hall on the Return of the fullback.
Baseball: FanGraphs examines The Relationship Between FIP and Exit Velocity. The Hardball Times on Elo vs. Regression to the Mean: A Theoretical Comparison. John Dewan looks at The Decline of an Elite Defender. FanGraphs writes about The Man Who Hasn’t Been Hit in Almost Six Years. Baseball Prospectus investigates Ground-ball Pitchers. FanGraphs looks at How Much Control Pitchers Exert Over Exit Velocity. The Hardball Times with more work on The Physics of Barreled Balls.
Basketball: Nylon Calculus takes A deeper look at turnovers. Nylon Calculus examines Shot defense and separating metrics from actions. The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective on whether NBA Players Believe in the Hot Hand. Nylon Calculus publishes PT-PM at the season’s halfway point.
College Basketball: Ken Pomeroy lists The team most likely to go winless in conference play.
Soccer: StatsBomb with Player Vectorised Representations: What player lists can we draw up with confidence? StatsBomb Serie A 2016/2017: Half Season Review. StatsBomb asks What’s An Advantage Actually Worth In Football?
Your moment of R: BaseballWithR looks at Spin Rate and Swinging Strike Probabilities.