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Twice in the past fortnight Richmond has been involved in matches that have been decided on the final score - and twice it has lost. This year the Tigers are 0-3 in these games: 2: Conceded score to lose 1: Missed score to lose They are ranked last in these games since 2010.

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A nice snapshot of the journey in which sports analytics is going on as it matures as an industry.

Looking for an experienced analyst to lead data strategy with a sports governing body. Based in Melbourne, Australia. Contact me to discuss. First of a few jobs becoming available in next couple of weeks (both here at VU and external).

2022 is done and dusted! Thought I'd put together a super thread of all the analysis, visualisation and data exploration I got up to this year.

Hard to imagine a worse performance (both onfield and off) than that by the aussies. You can write it off as India being good, but England won’t be pushovers by any means.

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What does the average #AFL player look like? Layering semi-transparent AFL headshots of all 2022 players yields this bloke:

Am really pleased to share this paper as my first piece of authored work. Hopefully it can add to commentary surrounding teams' forward line strategy in the AFL. You can check it out at the link below. #sportsanalytics #sportsdata #sports #analytics #afl

Quite simply the most wide-open battle for finals in #AFL history. The computer found over 230,000 possible permutations of the Final 8. Expect 5 teams to finish with 54+ and 8 teams to end up on 44-52 points. 48 won't be enough, unless you have both percentage and luck 1/5

Champion Data's Daniel Hoyne provides some context around HOW Expected Score as a statistic should be used. Sportsday | #AFL

Full results are in for 50 expert & media pundit preseason ladder predictions. Summary: Over the long term, Squiggle is going quite a lot better than any of them. I will be reposting this link once per day forever. squiggle.com.au/a-review-of-pr…

Does the outcome of tight matches play mind games on the umps as to which side they should give the votes to? The size of the gap between a 1pt win and a 1pt loss in the below suggests yes, it does. Using the margin is an obvious yet critical factor in predicting Brownlow voting.

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This week we dove relatively deep into centre clearances, how much they are really worth and how teams move the ball away from the middle. To do this of course we focused on West Coast. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

New Expected Scores page now available 🟣Explore goalkicking accuracy and shot rating (2021-) 🟣View by player, team or AFL-wide 🟣View player shot charts 🟣Filter shots by season, shot type, distance and corridor/pocket wheeloratings.com/afl_xscores.ht…