Every fantasy football manager wants to know what rookie will lead the league in scoring. Is the SEC always over hyped? Does a wide receiver with a fast forty in the NFL combine mean anything? As you’ll see, being the best in an event doesn’t mean much. Looking at the NFL Combine Data I’ve scraped… Read More The NFL Combine’s Impact on Rookie Fantasy Performance
Sports betting. For some it’s a great way to have fun but, for the professional “sharks”, it’s a way to make a living. I’ve been betting to mixed-success for 3 years now and want to share some resources so you can get started and learn from my mistakes. My worst mistake was losing when I… Read More The Guide to Sports Betting Online
Cookbooks The Food Lab — Winner of the 2016 James Beard Award. An absolute must have for home cooks I’ll say this again and again, The Food Lab is by far the greatest cookbook, and book, that I have ever purchased. 800+ pages of teaching that goes beyond your typical cookbook’s basic list of hit-or-miss… Read More Book Reviews
This guide is to help you understand where to find data on sports, especially free sports data. Most of it requires coding so I’m working on creating a data scraping guide too. To skip all this work, sign up at Sports Data Direct and let them deal with getting the data for you. MLB Data The MLB… Read More The Guide to Sports Data
With the all star break upon us, I wanted to see how team records at the all star break compare to full season performance. The Chicago Cubs sit below .500 with a 43-45 record (.489) and as a White Sox Fan I get giddy at the prospect of them not doing well again. Last season… Read More Are the Cubs Bad Again? Visualizing MLB Team Records at the All Star Break
Last week, I wrote about using the Google Maps API to visualize travel times according to when you want to leave by using their “Depart at” feature to simulate traffic. This week I took it a step further and made an interactive version. Go give it a try next time you have to drive somewhere, especially… Read More Visualization Vednesday: Travel Times Interactive Version
Before diving into how exactly Nate Silver’s Elo algorithm works I want to tell you a little about Nate Silver. Nate Silver first became famous from his MLB player projection tool PECOTA and managing Baseball Prospectus, a website devoted to baseball “sabermetrics”. Nate became publicly famous for predicting 49/50 states in the 2008 presidential election and was named… Read More Replicating Nate Silver’s NBA Elo Algorithm