a playoff game, what tools do we use to define such a person? What tools would we use to eliminate entanglement, in this case between the team’s overall offensive strength and the QB
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does not account for quarterback quality. I’ll get back to this in a later post though it is very difficult to separate out a quarterbacks’ influence on his receivers, so it is best to l...
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Thanks for showing to the world at-large something I've known for a long time: Randy Moss is the GREATEST field tilter in the history of the NFL. That the Vikings went 9-7 before drafting Moss, a...
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and everything else. Even his broader statistical portfolio is largely a team accomplishment, and untangling everyone’s contributions can be nearly impossible. But one indicator of the strengt...
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player performance is notoriously more difficult to quantify in football than in baseball. On the gridiron, detailed individual
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Point Shares (GPS) is not WAR. It is not trying to be WAR. Hockey inherently has far more statistical entanglement to its structure than baseball, which is mostly predicated on one-on-one match-...
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reliably factor the quality of coaching and management out of the process. And while the entanglement issue is a difficult one in the case of quarterbacks and wide receivers, it’s probably imp...
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When building a data-set, I try to be as fair and neutral as possible about what data to include or exclude. There is always a trade-off between broadness and representativeness. When there are v...
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While I agree with most of the analysis, I question the inclusion of Brady and Cassel in the 'before and after' number crunching. Because of Brady's injury he did not play in 2008 and did not app...
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to how drastically he has changed teams, and their quarterbacks, once he has joined a new team. The Randy Moss effect ion entanglement is chronicled brilliantly and extensively here, where the a...
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Hi Zaf, thanks for commenting. I should note that there's a difference between "statistical entanglement" and "indirect statistical effect." I limit the former term to situations where you have s...
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Wow really great stuff. I've been trying to apply some of the same techniques you've used here to determine just how important Darrelle Revis is to the JETS' secondary. As you've probably seen, t...
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