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PhD Football
Personal blog · phdfootball.blogspot.comdataother
PhD Football is a personal blog at phdfootball.blogspot.com about data. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for football analytics posts, such as one on isolating player movement by removing camera motion and another on quarterback passing. One commenter questioned the QB completion analysis.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An Ivory Tower Take on NFL Analytics
What Hacker News says?
> Edit 2: http://phdfootball.blogspot.com/2013/10/qbs-dont-have-passin... . is interesting, but you have to do any QB completion data with completion % based on distance thrown. QB completion is meaningless without incorporating distance. I had a similar thought; seems that he should bucket at least by remaining yards to get the first down as well as field position. Imagine an 8-yard pass completion after a 1st and…
Comment linking /2013/10/qbs-dont-have-passin..
on “Isolating Football Player Movement by Eliminating Camera Motion”Submitted Isolating Football Player Movement by Eliminating Camera Motion as a story · 156 points
HN discussionFantastic Blog, I run an online football game and try to use advanced analytics to generate proper games. Going to rummage through your archive and see if there's anything usable for me, trying to generate accurate games. Thanks for the work. Edit: Example, this blog post is amazing for my work. http://phdfootball.blogspot.com/2014/03/classifying-wrs-tes-... You provide the code you ran(!!!) so I can run it myself a…
Comment linking /2013/06/field-position-and-scoring.html
on “Isolating Football Player Movement by Eliminating Camera Motion”