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"Formula One itself has become too data-driven."
"This is FM analytics. This is telling you, out of a scientific test, what tactic is the best. That is so rare in the Football Manager universe."
"Brighton's data analysis is constantly evolving and improving and its results only seem to get better and better."
"This guy's gonna be a monster guy out performs the stats every year."
"It's really funny how disrespected JuJu is. I'm not drafting JuJu, but I also recognize, like, he was the wide receiver 18 last year, and he was actually valuable."
"Stats are really dangerous in League of Legends too because like if you're on a bad team your stats are going to be [ __ ] yeah you're just gonna have bad stats."
"Expected goals said he'd have been predicted to get 22 goals and six assists, which would have been obscene."
"The utilization was there for DeAndre Swift."
"It's got their full projections, breakouts, sleepers, bus, over a hundred player profile videos."
"12-0, that's what the model likes with Alabama."
"We love to see what we did at the end of the game, how many shots we had, how much possession we had."
"It's always really hard to determine DK's value because you can't see it up front in, you know, how the hits you take appear big."
"Arsenal are performing over a 49 game sample size, taking 95 points. You can't fluke that."
"Looks amazing, high hit power, high pursuit, high awareness."
"Who is more likely to better their chances of making the Hall of Fame: Kemba Walker playing on one of the best teams in Euro league or John Wall riding the pine in the NBA?"
"I'd like an individual team ranking, I think that would be super cool."
"How are you going to make up that gap? Analytics is one playing style, one that's but you do need to make up that gap somehow."
"Data analysis will be a big tool for player recruitment in the future."
"There's a reason he's player the matches, reason his stats are incredible."
"In soccer, math can be quite useful, especially when analyzing player performance."
"The thousands have actually been one of the NFL's strongest drafting teams over the past decades."
"We're just under the halfway point and we're only 31,000 fans behind, that's really, really close."
"99 speed, 99 acceleration, 93 catching, 97 deep route running."
"Players emotions don't fit on your spreadsheet."
"He's been so superb... he's in line as potentially a player of the season for Tottenham this year."
"Stats are not the ultimate arbiter. What they are is a tool to aid our greater understanding."
"There will be a focus on tracking data, as it's essential in football analytics."
"The numbers are suggesting that duplicity should be valued like a top-tier field manager or GM after all his impact on on wins and losses is at the very least way more quantifiable."
"We did it based on Basketball Reference positions so if you're wondering oh how was this player a small for I'm used to being a shooting guard or all men they're missing somebody he's probably a power forward."
"The 49ers and Brock Pie are the most efficient deep passing team in the league."
"Everyone has been saying my stock is up after every measurement drill I do."
"There is not a sport that will Embrace detailed data like this like baseball."
"Tim Duncan's defensive metrics are godlike everything from defensive ratings offensive Win Shares is on and off numbers defensively..."
"There's a lot that's overlooked just because of the numbers, and we need to stop doing that because that leads to players becoming overrated."
"Nine receptions from the running back position again for Mike Davis, he has tied for the league lead at the running back position."
"He was seen as a better defender at the time of the draft as well and ultimately kat has developed into arguably the best big man shooter in the entire league."
"Choosing Calum Ilott is a case of looking at the stats, seeing if it's our team. The focus there was really good and also, he's got some decent stats. I think he'll be a pretty decent driver."
"Success is deeper than making big money signings and relying exclusively on data to help form your opinions."
"He's got all the stats you need for a striker."
"You don't learn about the temperament or style of a footballer just from what's on Bloody opter you don't."
"Tyler Boyd is the other one double-digit targets all three weeks."
"Underlying stats such as XG, XAXT, could give you an Insight on which direction a player team is heading and allow you to make a proactive decision."
"They have been putting up numbers to suggest that they are turning a corner from what they were last season."
"Nearly every time Jackson joined a new team in the NFL, the offense improved in yards per attempt and explosive pass plays."
"Understanding how velocity y goes from -40 to 0 and then into positive numbers gives us the ability to tie player state change to it."
"...it's amazing that once again with Toots, we get the lowest time to throw along with the deepest intended yards per attempt in the NFL."
"If anyone ever doubts that XG non penalty is a good indicator of players to get well this would indicate that how strong it is because you know it's only really adio who is outside of that who's not shaded in yellow there."
"Here's an opportunity now for the Bison defense to set up their offense in very good field position ESPN analytics say go for it on Fourth and two or less."
"The reason that analytics was adopted in baseball faster and more uh seriously than any other sport they play 162 games that's twice as much as the NBA twice as much as the NHL 10 times as much as the NFL."
"The rise of Moneyball was occurring right in front of our eyes."
"Baseball is fundamentally connected to its statistics and record keeping, much more so than other sports."
"Box plus minus is a neat advanced metric that determines how much contribution a player made."
"This guy's been putting up numbers all season long that are into the elite top 2% of all throwers."
"This is part 4 of a series of lessons that we're putting together on how you can get started working with tracking and event data in football."
"The five features that we're going to look at for clustering are overall rating, potential rating, value to their current club, their wage, and their age."
"Arcos is simply a system that's going to allow you to really start understanding your game."
"What would the hypothetical win percentage be for a team against the average team on a neutral field?"
"The NBA is a game of percentages, and if a guy is shooting 60% on the shot, that's a good shot."
"All of the analytics are going to point to him being a really good high impact contributor on an NBA roster."
"Adjusted plus/minus is much smarter than raw plus/minus."
"I really like the underlying numbers for Maran Bamp in his rookie season."
"We now have CSV files for MVPs, players, and teams, and this is actually exactly what we need to do to go ahead and apply machine learning in the next step."
"There is an abundance of stats that you can use on Soccer Stats."
"We have 6737 rows; these are all the batters from 2002 to 2022 who have 200 plate appearances and we had at least two seasons of data for."
"We use historical data to predict a single season."
"We're going to try to use the stats from one season to predict a player's WAR the next season."
"We're going to extract out all the passes for team one and team two."
"We're going to find out how many runs that a batsman gets basically for every 100 balls bowled."
"If a person's free throw percentage is 70 percent, what is the probability of getting exactly four out of five free throws?"
"4.6 chances created per 90 is high, isn't it?"
"But what if we could use numbers and data collected over decades of NBA games to make an accurate prediction?"
"The better you can get at defining expected goals for each team, then the more reliable the results from the Poisson distribution will be."
"It's not too often you see teams so quickly go from bottom three in a certain department to like top 10 in that regard."
"FIP, or Fielder Independent Pitching, gives you an idea of how well that pitcher performed on his own without the help of defense."
"There are good advanced metrics with Simmons and Embiid together."
"Expected goals are good, it's a sign that good things are happening."
"It incredibly changed the entire game and the way that recruiting was done for teams."
"This spot that the Seahawks passing attack is in is a dream spot when it comes to fantasy and overall production."
"Using computer vision technology, tracking every player on the field."
"With volume, we know that volume is King in fantasy football."
"Analytics, all these analytics coaches, the numbers say go for three in that situation."
"Theoretical Team Runs Created, which is a sabermetric formula, is used to analyze baseball players."
"With AWS, we want to unlock the full potential of our next-gen stats."
"The secret formula for identifying wide receiver trade targets is to define what these players are based on their usage, talent, offensive environment, and team situation."
"Rushing efficiency contributes to only 4.4 percent of the variance in winning, whereas passing game efficiency explained 62 percent."