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- 2021 NBA Projections on RotoValue
- Customizing Projections on RotoValue with RotoValue Analyst
- Expanded Filtering in Search
- Reviewing the FiveThirtyEight 2018 Election Forecasts
- Reverse Platoon Splits – Before and After
- Professional Standings Now Available on RotoValue
- One Player, Two Kinds of Stats: Handling Shohei Ohtani
- Fighting the Last War
- #FixTheWin
- Comparing Projected HR leaders to actual
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2021 NBA Projections on RotoValue
I’ve released RotoValue 2021 NBA individual projections. RotoValue projections take into account a player’s NBA statistics, age, position, and their depth chart position (if any) to predict statistics totals. The model regresses all players to a per-position league average, so … Continue reading
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Customizing Projections on RotoValue with RotoValue Analyst
Projections are central to fantasy sports, and RotoValue integrates projections into the site. Pages like Search or Projected Standings have a Source selection, where you can choose which set of statistics to display: the current or past seasons, preseason data where available, and … Continue reading
Posted in Auction, Draft, Fantasy Strategy, Projections
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Expanded Filtering in Search
RotoValue Search pages used to support filtering by a single pro team or fantasy team, but now that has been extended to support searches filtering on multiple values of these types. Previously you’d need two different windows or browser tabs … Continue reading
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Reviewing the FiveThirtyEight 2018 Election Forecasts
Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com published forecasts of the 2018 mid-term elections, predicting the outcome of races for House, Senate, and Governor. The site also made it easy to download their projection data, and so I’d like to look at their forecasts and … Continue reading
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Reverse Platoon Splits – Before and After
Tom Tango asked someone to see what players with at least a 30-point wOBA reverse platoon split in their first 2500 plate appearances did for the rest of their careers, and Sean Foreman kindly provided split data from his database. So I … Continue reading
Posted in Major League Baseball, Sabermetrics
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Professional Standings Now Available on RotoValue
RotoValue now also shows professional standings for both MLB and NBA. And, like the fantasy standings pages, you can customize them to any date range you like. So if you want to see how your team has done since a particular … Continue reading
Posted in Major League Baseball, NBA Basketball
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One Player, Two Kinds of Stats: Handling Shohei Ohtani
This year the Angels signed Shohei Ohtani, the young Japanese star who played both as a pitcher and outfielder for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japanese Pacific League. As in Japan, Ohtani is expected to continue to play extensively … Continue reading
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Fighting the Last War
This week’s Riddler at FiveThirtyEight reruns a puzzle initially run back in February. The game is a “war” between two warlords fighting over 10 castles. Each warlord has 100 soldiers, and the 10 castles are worth from 1 to 10 points each. … Continue reading
#FixTheWin
A few years back Brian Kenney introduced the hashtag #KillTheWin, which still lives on. Baseball fans point out egregious cases of a pitcher getting a win in a game despite pitching poorly. While the win might have been a useful … Continue reading
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Comparing Projected HR leaders to actual
Tom Tango asked an interesting question on Twitter yesterday: The odds of the projected HR leader actually leading the league is an interesting question. I’ve been doing projections since 2011, so I thought I’d sweep my database for the RotoValue … Continue reading
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