It is getting very hard to envision a scenario where any conference other than the Big Ten can claim this season’s mantle for “Best Conference.” Sure, Duke may end up winning the title. All the Big Ten teams could flame out of the NCAA tournament. But top-to-bottom, there is no way that any team is […]
Earlier this year, I finally got around to putting out live win probabilities for in-progress games. Last year, I had managed to build the after-the-fact visualizations for games already completed, but the leap this year was being able to do it for games as they are happening. It’s not a perfect system, largely because of […]
Each week, we will look back at the games that were to see which players had the largest individual performances. I say largest because the contributions that we can measure (from play by play) tend to be things that are easy to count. This includes, goals, shots, assists, turnovers, penalties, etc. We can’t measure a […]
Each week, we will look back at the games that were to see which players had the largest individual performances. I say largest because the contributions that we can measure (from play by play) tend to be things that are easy to count. This includes, goals, shots, assists, turnovers, penalties, etc. We can’t measure a […]
Assists are a tricky thing. Different sports handle them differently (see hockey assist). In some cases, the goal wouldn’t have happened without the pinpoint assist. In some cases, the player credited with an assist just happened to pass the ball to teammate who then made an amazing play to score a goal.No sport values assists […]
Each week, we will look back at the games that were to see which players had the largest individual performances. I say largest because the contributions that we can measure (from play by play) tend to be things that are easy to count. This includes, goals, shots, assists, turnovers, penalties, etc. We can’t measure a […]
Each week, we will look back at the games that were to see which players had the largest individual performances. I say largest because the contributions that we can measure (from play by play) tend to be things that are easy to count. This includes, goals, shots, assists, turnovers, penalties, etc. We can’t measure a […]
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I hope that the folks over at FiveThirtyEight buy into that idea. Because this post is a shameful rip-off of a concept they wrote about recently. But hey, if it hasn’t been done for college lacrosse yet, that always perks up our ears.The article, by […]
Each week, we will look back at the games that were to see which players had the largest individual performances. I’ve gotten a surprising amount of feedback this week about a defense-flavor for these rankings, largely driven by John Sexton’s game against UVA. So I’m bowing to public pressure. Here’s our first attempt at a […]
Each week, we will look back at the games that were to see which players had the largest individual performances. I say largest because the contributions that we can measure (from play by play) tend to be things that are easy to count. This includes, goals, shots, assists, turnovers, penalties, etc. We can’t measure a […]