Weekly Sports Analytics News Roundup – June 21, 2016
Football: Football Outsiders publishes Adjusted Interceptions 2015 and 2015 Receiving Plus-Minus.
Baseball: FanGraphs on Generating Statistical Comps for First-Round College Hitters. The Hardball Times on The Pirates and Team Groundball Rates . FanGraphs Hitter Contact-Quality Report: Second Base. Baseball Prospectus on the Best and Worst of Day Two . FanGraphs on The Winners and the Losers in the Other Draft. The Hardball Times Why Ground Balls Are Hit.
Basketball: FiveThirtyEight with LeBron Led The Cavs On One Of The Greatest Playoff Runs In NBA History. The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective says Make Your Layups. Nylon Calculus Guest Post: Home Court Advantage and Shooting. FiveThirtyEight says After All That, The Warriors Aren’t Even The Second-Best Team Ever. Nylon Calculus says Everybody Plays Better At Home. FiveThirtyEight asks Is The Stephen Curry Revolution Over Already? The Angry Statistician anserws What’s the Value of a Win?. Nylon Calculus Freelance Friday: Expected Value in the NBA Draft. Nick Restifo gives us the NBA Draft trade value chart.
Soccer: StatsBomb Euro 2016: Stats Diary 2. American Soccer Analysis First Touch: First Edition.
Your Moment of R: BaseballWithR with R code to Simulate a Half-Inning of Baseball.
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.