Weekly Sports Analytics News Roundup – November 22nd, 2016
Football: FiveThirtyEight looks at whether The Giants Are Sneaking Up On Us Again. Football Outsiders’ 2016 ALEX: Midseason Report. FiveThirtyEight on if The Browns Will Ever Win A Game.
College Football: FiveThirtyEight says Keep Winning, Alabama, And You May Be The Best Team In History.
Baseball: FanGraphs says Mike Trout Officially Does Everything but Pitch. FiveThirtyEight declares Mike Trout Is The MVP — And Still On Track For The G.O.A.T.. The Baseball Prospectus Flu-Like Symptoms: The Singles Scene Turns Bleak . FanGraphs asks Just How Awful Is This Crop of Free-Agent Starters? Tom Tango’s Pre-Statcast Lab: How much different fielding support do pitchers on the same team get? The Hardball Times Scouts the Minors Pitch by Pitch: Swinging Strike %. FanGraphs with a Dispatch from the Max Schrock Propaganda Machine. The Hardball Times writes about Major League Spending Trends: The Draft Bonus Pool.
Basketball: Nylon Calculus with Defending drives and defensive correlations. FiveThirtyEight says Dwight Howard Has Transformed The Hawks. Nylon Calculus takes A quick look at deflections.
College Basketball: Ken Pomeroy on What Horace Broadnax Is Doing at Savannah State.
Soccer: StatsBomb with 4 Coaching Hacks to Develop Better Players.
Your Moment of R: BaseballWithR on whether Mike Trout is streaky.
Conferences: Hockey Graphs and Vancouver Canucks Co-Host Vancouver Hockey Analytics Conference 2017 on March 11, 2017.