Nothing like Championship Monday. Unlike college basketball, lacrosse’s championship game doesn’t come after a workday. No, like a kid with a birthday on a holiday, lacrosse fans get to wake up knowing that, yes, today is all about lacrosse. We get to watch the two teams that have navigated the gauntlet of March to reach […]
I’m not sure that most people realize what a golden age we are living in. In the 8 days spanning last Saturday (3/10) through this coming Saturday (3/17), we will have been treated to 2 of the greatest college lacrosse games in recent memory. The odds of two such games happening so close together is […]
As part of our 2018 season kick-off, I wanted to collect the best of LacrosseReference’s articles from last year in one place. Consider this the cliff-notes for new readers. Lacrosse Talent is Heading West (and South)This analysis shed some light on changes in the number of players coming from traditional hotbeds vs the newer lacrosse […]
Our last post was about total Twitter followers and how the D1 Men’s programs stack up. Twitter is an important part of building a brand, and the brand is important in recruiting, so this stuff has some salience this time of year. But outside of the recruiting impacts, social media can tell us something about […]
Twitter is an extremely interesting animal. It is simultaneously one of the best tools ever created for sharing ideas and one of the most nefarious channels for spreading malevolence. It’s a platform that has become a key part of our social consciousness and a company struggling to make ends meet. It’s among the most important […]
Just wanted to take a few moments to say thank you for spending some time this season with us here at LacrosseReference.I can’t describe how much we’ve appreciated the questions, comments, and feedback that we’ve received over the course of the season.We are going to shift into off-season mode here shortly. That means more work […]
I’ll never forget my first Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. It was an event I’d wanted to go to since I first heard about it as the nerve center of the sports analytics world. I walked the halls with people whose articles and algorithms I read religiously. But that is not what made it memorable. No, what […]
A few weeks ago, we published a post detailing the distribution of D1 players from every state and several Canadian provinces. The idea was to use the share of players that come from each state as one way to examine the growth of the sport. All things considered, I’d expected there to be a more […]
One of the reasons that we enjoy being part of the lacrosse community is that it is so small. Like an up-and-coming band, the bond between sport and fan is stronger precisely because so few others share it. This is amplified by the fact that your author grew up in Baltimore, one of, if not […]
Computer vision is having a sort of coming-out moment. (And more broadly, the umbrella of machine learning that it falls under.) Everyone in the field got really excited when a computer beat the world champion at a game called Go. Every tech company seems to be devoting more resources to acquiring promising start ups. And […]