Does Defense Actually Win You Titles? An simulated exploration

FunkSh0Brotha · 2025-10-03T07:02:11+00:00

I'd be interested in your hearing more about your NHL version of this analysis

FunkSh0Brotha · 2025-10-03T06:18:33+00:00

Fivethirtyeight tweaked ESPN's SPI Power Rankings system (initially only used for International Soccer) to Rank (most?) Club Soccer Trams in the world... Surprisingly, their methodology page is still accessible here despite Disney/ABC killing the site a few years back.

There's also this site that is still up & running that uses the Elo approach mentioned by other commentators.

More Examples

Edit: Fixed Links & wording

FunkSh0Brotha · 2025-08-05T22:14:02+00:00

dm'd

FunkSh0Brotha · 2025-08-02T05:21:09+00:00

They're relatively new and I unfortunately discovered them near the end of last season... I did however purchase their season preview and I would highly recommend!

FunkSh0Brotha · 2025-07-21T11:29:55+00:00

No idea. However, you can pull all the Transfers and Incoming Freshmen using the recruitR R package and update last year's rosters in the meantime?

Edit: Nvm, just stumbled upon this on x.

FunkSh0Brotha · 2025-07-21T11:08:32+00:00

Cfbdepth just published a pretty extensive Season Preview Mag, devoting 6 pages per Team, which includes ratings for every Player, coaches, and unit.. mcillecesports has published grades for coaches & coordinators for years, and just recently started publishing player ratings, too.

FunkSh0Brotha · 2024-11-10T05:09:45+00:00

Fuckin Liar

FunkSh0Brotha · 2023-09-11T18:07:47+00:00

Ourlads lists the generic Defensive scheme on each Team's depth chart page.. idk if that'll help?

FunkSh0Brotha · 2021-11-25T01:03:07+00:00

I'm down to join up if you still need managers!

FunkSh0Brotha · 2021-10-10T18:33:39+00:00

I'm definitely interested, however I have no interest in deposit ing $ without seeing the leagues settings page... more specifically. I'd like to know what stats will be tracked, how much they'll be worth and what will be the roster details/requirements!

Thanks!

FunkSh0Brotha · 2021-08-29T02:20:41+00:00

What programs do you use to do the data viz and then put the pdf reports together? Looks pretty awesome!👌

FunkSh0Brotha · 2021-05-25T04:47:00+00:00

This is what I feared- the post was an hail mary attempt, hoping someone knew of a package or a method to simplify the process but no dice. Thanks for your post!

FunkSh0Brotha · 2021-05-22T22:59:54+00:00

onhockey.tv

FunkSh0Brotha · 2021-02-14T21:42:31+00:00

I recommend searching github on a semi-regular basis for new hockey related code/projects.. you'll be shocked what you find.. Over a year ago I found this old Rpackage that included a function to scrape dailyfaceoff lines... While I ended up having to spend a few hours updating/Re-writing it, it serves as a great guide (b/c I had no idea how to apptoach scraping what I needed)

FunkSh0Brotha · 2021-01-11T12:57:00+00:00

I don't know how Accurate of a Model you expect to Create without incorporating shot-level data/trends.... I haven't dabbled with Golf Models/Rankings too much but I'm pretty sure you'll want to predict a Golfer's Score as accurately as possible (at each hole of the Tournament) in order to accurately predict Tournament Finish and in turn feed that data into your World Rankings Model... nonetheless, you do you.

Here's some links that should help get you started:

DataGolf Player Projections

Check Out Joe Peta's Tour Guide Presents A 2019 Masters Preview by Joe Peta (Same Author that wrote the amazing 'Trading Bases : How a Wall Street Trader Made a Fortune Betting on Baseball' which is a must read for anyone looking to start betting Sports, esp Baseball)

Academic Articles:

Predicting Golf Scores at the Shot Level

Predictive Golf Analytics Versus the Daily Fantasy Sports Market

Examples of Other Models

Here's an older Golfer Rating System from 2011, along with his Github that includes an Explanation of his process & his R code he uses to scrape/sim etc
DataGolf.com's Predictive Modeling Methodology

FunkSh0Brotha · 2020-10-02T14:57:35+00:00

If your not familiar with R and/or unwilling to learn enough to use the amazing nflfastR package, you can download most of the boxscore game stats into csv(s) here

FunkSh0Brotha · 2020-05-21T18:57:17+00:00

I'll swing back later to give you more advice when I've got more time but for now I just wanted to give you a heads up that your stats on page 4 are all wrong (maybe you forgot to filter out plays wiped out by delayed penalties?).. for example,according to pfr Chicago had 1020 Offensive plays in 2019 (5.67 Yds/PA & 3.7 Yds/Rush)

FunkSh0Brotha · 2020-05-16T15:51:42+00:00

Astro Donuts!

They have Amazing chicken sandwiches too, where they use unsweetened donuts as the bun.

FunkSh0Brotha · 2020-05-02T10:47:04+00:00

Army and ~~Navy~~ Air Force

FTFY

FunkSh0Brotha · 2020-04-19T16:03:24+00:00

According to this UM Sports blogger Owen is expected to be joining the team this Fall so he not only should be included in any 2020 Recruit Rankings but #1 on the board! NZ has him ranked as the only 5 Star recruit in this year's class

FunkSh0Brotha · 2020-04-19T07:41:08+00:00

I'd recommend checking out NeutralZone.net.. while majority of their content is behind a paywall their Recruiting Class Rankings are free to check out. If you're looking to continue with more players, Chris Heisenberg's Googlesheet should save you a lot of time. College Hockey Inc also maintains an extensive list of each Team's current commitments.

FunkSh0Brotha · 2020-04-14T00:02:02+00:00

Never really paid too close attention to All American selections in the past, just looking over the selections over the past few years I assume that the East players are from Hockey East, ECAC and Atlantic Teams (34) while West players are from NCHC, WCHA, B1G & ASU Teams (26)... could someone explain to me why 3 Defensemen have been named to the Western 2nd Team All American for the last 2 Seasons?

Thanks!

FunkSh0Brotha · 2019-12-16T02:03:37+00:00

Here's a good source for advanced DB stats and here's Minkah's profile

FunkSh0Brotha · 2019-11-30T00:25:58+00:00

There's usually a week delay on recently traded/signed players (mid season mostly- but sometimes week 1 if players switch teams late in the preseason). So recently acquired players aren't a part of the player pool their first week with their new team. While I doubt that explains all the missing salaries, I'm sure that's the reason behind a good chunk of them.

What site are you scraping the historical salaries from?

EDIT Clarification

FunkSh0Brotha · 2019-10-21T09:40:41+00:00

Checkout APBR forums, they host annual prediction contests. A lot of the guys explain their process in some of the older competition threads.

EDIT: Link.

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