Weekly Sports Analytics News Roundup – October 25, 2016
Football: FiveThirtyEight shows The NFL Teams That Play The Highest Draft Picks. Jacksonville Jaguars Senior Vice President of Football Technology & Analytics Tony Khan on Third-Down Play Calling.
College Football: ESPN Analytics on Nebraska’s perfect start and the role of analytics. Football Study Hall says Colorado, Troy among college football’s most drastic overachievers in 2016.
Baseball: FanGraphs offers The New Postseason Plan: Defense Early, Offense Late. FanGraphs on How the Cubs Can Win the World Series and How the Indians Can Win the World Series. FiveThirtyEight says Cubs-Indians Is A Throwback World Series Matchup. FiveThirtyEight writes that Even The Data Thinks The Cubs May Have Been Cursed. FanGraphs writes that Bullpen Usage Is Destroying Offense This Postseason. Baseball Prospectus Baseball Therapy: Stop, Miller Time.
Basketball: FiveThirtyEight on Which NBA Team Is The Tallest. FiveThirtyEight says There’s Still Hope For Last Season’s Worst NBA Rookie. The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective looks at whether There Is Nepotism in the NBA Draft. FiveThirtyEight wonders if Anthony Davis Can Bounce Back.
Soccer: StatsBomb on How Spurs and Liverpool’s Presses Differ Plus Other Buildup Bits.
Hockey: Hockey Graphs’ Primer on @DTMAboutHeart’s WAR Model. and Introduces Expected Plus-Minus.
Your moment of R: BaseballWithR’s World Series Special — Winning and Losing Streaks and Ballpark Attendance. Bill Petti in the Hardball Times on Slopegraphs and Mike Trout.
Conferences: Central College hosts he Midwest Sports Analytics Meeting on November 19th.