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NCAA Baseball Growth Curves
The goal of this mini project is to visualize player aging curves in college baseball. It is assumed that players improve from their...
Analyzing Conference Disparity in the NBA with R
Using data from the 2005-06 season to 2020-21, this guided tutorial analyzes conference disparity in the NBA. How strong is the...
St. Louis Cardinals Wild Card Game (10/6/21) Scouting Report
(90-72) (45-36) road SP: Wainwright: 3.05 ERA (106-56) (58-23) home SP: Scherzer: 1.98 ERA Adam Wainwright #50: RHP 64% 1st Pitch Strike...
Week 2 NFL 4th Down Decision Making Report
Building off last week's article, let's see how well NFL teams are making decisions through two weeks of the NFL season. In week 2 a...
Week 1 NFL 4th Down Decision Making Report
This NFL season, I plan on using @ben_bot_baldwin 4th down decision bot to tabulate each 'incorrect' 4th down decision made by NFL teams...
Clustering NBA Players Using K-Means with a Focus on Market Inefficiency
Introduction In the modern NBA, the notion of ‘positionless basketball’ is making waves across the league. Players like Nikola Jokic are...
A JUMBO sized Recap & Review of WSU's Men's Basketball Season
With the Cougs tipping off Pac-12 tournament play with their contest against Arizona State (7-10) this Wednesday at 1:00, we take a look...
NBA's Lineup of the Month: Utah Starting Five
Finding the right lineup is imperative early in the season. Players can have unlimited skill, but if they are not skilled together, the...
A Celebration of Efe Abogidi's Efficiency & Analysis of (8-0!!) WSU men's basketball
6’ 10” stud post Efe Abogidi has been named WSU’s first ever Pac-12 Freshman of the Week since the award was established leading up to...
Using Regression Techniques to Sort Spam Emails
by Jack Weyer and Madison Neyland Introduction Efficient and organized communication is a vital aspect of our professional and personal...
Predicting Median Home Value in 1970s Boston through the lens of Racial Segregation
by Jack Weyer and Madison Neyland Introduction In this project we will use the ‘Boston’ data in the ‘MASS’ library containing several...
How the NFL has evolved
Of these two major sports American sports leagues, the National Football League has undoubtedly been the slowest to embrace analytics....
How the NBA has evolved
Of the two major sports that we will discuss, the National Basketball Association of today would undoubtedly look the most foreign to a...
Introduction
The purpose of this research project is to shed light on how analytics and the increase of available data has led to an evolution of the...













