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Football Score Distributions
With the Super Bowl only hours away now is your last chance to buy your boxes. Assuming the last digits are not assigned randomly you can maximize your chances with a little analysis. While I’ve...
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Another Kind of Super Bowl Pool
Shortly after the Giants fantastic defeat of the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI (I was a little disappointed that Eli, Coughlin and the Vince Lombardi Trophy all got off the parade route early and the...
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Eli Manning’s Receiver Preference by Down
With the recent availability of play-by-play NFL data I got to analyzing my favorite team, the New York Giants with some very hasty EDA. From the above graph you can see that on 1st down Eli preferred...
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Play Selection by Down
Continuing with the newly available football data and inspired by a question from Drew Conway I decided to look at play selection based on down by the Giants for the past 10 years. Visually, we see...
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MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Last year, as I embarked on my NFL sports statistics work, I attended the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference for the first time. A year later, after a very successful draft, I was invited to present an...
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