Weekly Sports Analytics News Roundup – June 14, 2016
Football: Football Outsiders 2015 Passing Plus-Minus.
Baseball: FanGraphs says The Pirates’ Lousy Weekend Might Have Sunk Their Season. Hardball Times Searches for Biases in the First Round of the Draft. FanGraphs does A Q&A with Tom Tango: MLB’s New Data Guru. Baseball Prospectus on the Best and Worst of Day Two . BeyondTheBoxScore says The AL West doesn’t look like we thought it would. FanGraphs Projects the College Players Taken on Day One of the Draft.
Basketball: FiveThirtyEight writes Playoff LeBron Is Amazing, But That Hasn’t Been Enough. Nylon Calculus’ Thoughts on Game 5 without Draymond Green. FiveThirtyEight says Steph Curry Trails Shaun Livingston In The NBA Finals MVP Race. Nylon Calculus says Kevin Love not the cause of Cavs Finals woes. Nylon Calculus Stacks Up this Year’s Draft Prospects.
Soccer: StatsBomb on Good Ideas and Lessons Learned. The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective Euro 2016 Projections.
Hockey: FiveThirtyEight says The Penguins’ Win Meant Redemption For The Numbers, Too.
Your Moment of R: BaseballWithR with Linear Weights on R.
Conferences: The Asia-Pacific Sports Analytics Conference to be held in Melbourne on July 22nd. Society for American Baseball Research to hold SABR 46 July 27-31 in Miami. Sixth Annual Sabermetrics Seminar to Benefit the Jimmy Fund and the Angioma Alliance August 13-14 in Boston.