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"How can we best put the gap between Curry and the best three-point shooters in history in context? Over the past 30 years, the number of 3-point field goals has trended steadily upward. If we project that trend into the future, 402 becomes a perfectly natural number of 3-point field goals for an N.B.A. player to make. "

"It's a way of visualizing a large number of stats at one time. In our case, the radars specifically deal with player stats. Some people also call them spider charts or graphs because they can look like they make a spider web."

Possession vs Classement en Ligue 1

"The overall contribution of the EPV project remains unknown; it is in its infancy and is by no means going to "revolutionize" basketball analysis. But perhaps it will eventually fuel a new supplementary approach to assessing performance in the NBA. Maybe it won't, and its contribution will be less about figuring out true player value and more about simply raising awareness about the kinds of thinking, computation, and analysis that are required to really generate new basketball insights going forward. For years, we have talked about "advanced stats" when what we were really talking about was slightly savvier arithmetic. That's going to change, whether we want it to or not. Don't get me wrong - metrics like points per possession and PER have significantly improved the analytical discourse surrounding basketball. Still, there's a tremendous amount left to do. And given these vast haystacks of newfangled player tracking data, we're in desperate need of similarly newfangled needle-extraction techniques."

"The obvious question is how public the data will be, and MLBAM doesn't have definitive answers just yet. That can be read as the cookie jar slamming shut on this fantastic data, due to teams hoarding it so they can run proprietary evaluations for themselves. In actuality, it's more like the league not wanting to get ahead of itself"

Analyse statistique du but Argentine - Serbia 2006

"Imagine sitting in the stands at court Philippe Chatrier and wondering where this player is going to hit his forehand? Google Glass immediately overlays the stroke pattern right onto the court so you can see where his shots have been passing on the court. Wow! These images are a few quick examples that I put together to show you the potential of Google Glass in tennis. Google Glass will enhance our viewing experience of tennis (and all sports) by 10 fold! Sitting court side, we will be able to control when we see the stats, what stats we see and for how long. Whether it is seeing a live heat map, or 3D ball trajectory the potential is endless."

"At Kickdex we are passionate about investigating almost anything that can affect the performance of a team or a player in a football match. In this post we look at how rainfall on a match day could play a role."

"The point of this is to help identify easy and tricky runs of fixtures which could cause clubs to surge or fall in the league table. "

"n short, the question of which league is the best is near impossible to answer definitively given the diverse criteria by which different people judge the beautiful game, but there is one method that can get us part of the way there, and hopefully spark debate en route. The idea is to look at every match played in each league - in this case over the last five seasons - and explore how the strength of the teams involved interacts to determine both the standard of football on show, and the level of competition between the two sides. The same method has been used elsewhere including for the NFL by sport statistics specialists FiveThirtyEight."

"ExpG stands for Expected Goals, where each attempt to score is assigned a probability of resulting in a goal, based on location, type of shot, assist details and some other factors."

"L'heure du bilan a sonné pour la 20ème Coupe du monde de football : une Coupe du monde riche en émotions, en buts et performances sportives mais également une Coupe du monde riche en données et statistiques pour mieux analyser et comprendre les performances des équipes. Sur ce terrain, les médias avaient prévu d'aligner de nouvelles équipes pour suivre l'événement sous l'angle des datas : Retour en détail sur quelques dispositifs, par Estelle Prusker Deneuville, doctorante à l'Université Panthéon-Assas"

"Quelle est la meilleure équipe de l'histoire du championnat de France, depuis l'instauration d'une poule unique professionnelle en 1933-1934? Est-ce Saint-Étienne, le club le plus titré (10) ou Sochaux, celui qui a disputé le plus de saisons dans l'élite (65) ? Nantes et son record de 44 saisons d'affilée en L1 ou le PSG et ses quatre succès en quarante ans ? Le septennat de Lyon au début des années 2000 ou bien la régularité de Marseille, champion à 73 ans d'intervalle ? Selon les époques, des dynasties se sont établies et ont régné sur le football français. Et puisqu'il est impossible de voir lutter les Rémois de Kopa, les Verts de Rocheteau ou les Lyonnais de Juninho, le JDD vous propose une plongée statistique dans l'histoire du championnat, de la Division 1 à la Ligue 1 d'aujourd'hui. Une enquête JDD Data exclusive, qui révèle de nombreuses surprises."

"L'avantage d'avoir un patron qui a, dirons-nous, une certaine proximité avec la technologie c'est qu'il n'hésite pas à y faire appel. Ainsi, les clippers sont en train de mettre en place un nouveau service à destination de l'expérience fan lors des matches. Avec l'entreprise Second Spectrum, les fans des Clippers pourront choisir 8 fois pendant un match de repasser une de leurs actions préférées sur les écrans géants de la salle. La vidéo choisie arrivera avec tout un lot de statistiques et d'informations que nulle autre entreprise n'est capable de fournir à l'heure actuelle."

"In terms of analyzing soccer matches, two of the most important factors to consider are: 1) the formation the team played (e.g., 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1), and 2) the manner in which they executed it (e.g., conservative - sitting deep, or aggressive - pressing high). Despite the existence of ball and player tracking data, no current methods exist which can automatically detect and visualize formations. Using an entire season of Prozone data which consists of ball and player tracking information from a recent top-tier professional league, we showcase an automatic formation detection method by investigating the "home advantage". In a paper we published recently, using an entire season of ball tracking data we showed that home teams had significantly more possession in the forward third which correlated with more shots and goals while the shooting and passing proficiencies were the same. Using our automatic formation analysis, we extend this analysis, and show that teams tend to play the same formation at home as they do away, but the manner in which they execute it is significantly different. Specifically, we show that the formation of teams at home is significantly higher up the field compared to when they play away. This conservative approach at away games suggests that coaches aim to win their home games and draw their away games. Additionally, we also show that our method can visually summarize a game which gives an indication of dominance and tactics. While enabling new discoveries of team behavior which can enhance analysis, it is also worth mentioning that our automatic formation detection method is the first to be developed."

"The Moneyball revolution coincided with a shift in the way professional sporting organizations handle and utilize data in terms of decision making processes. Due to the demand for better sports analytics and the improvement in sensor technology, there has been a plethora of ball and player tracking information generated within professional sports for analytical purposes. However, due to the continuous nature of the data and the lack of associated high-level labels to describe it - this rich set of information has had very limited use especially in the analysis of a team's tactics and strategy. In this paper, we give an overview of the types of analysis currently performed mostly with hand-labeled event data and highlight the problems associated with the influx of spatiotemporal data. By way of example, we present an approach which uses an entire season of ball tracking data from [a professional soccer] league (2010-2011 season) to reinforce the common held belief that teams should aim to "win home games and draw away ones". We do this by: i) forming a representation of team behavior by chunking the incoming spatiotemporal signal into a series of quantized bins, and ii) generate an expectation model of team behavior based on a code-book of past performances. We show that home advantage in soccer is partly due to the conservative strategy of the away team. We also show that our approach can flag anomalous team behavior which has many potential applications."

"OMATA One is a technologically-advanced, GPS computer that displays the information that cyclists need in a unique and modern design. The analog face makes it easier to read whilst in motion, and every part of this beautiful product is designed to complement your bike, as well as the ride itself."

"Pour répondre à la requête du PSG, Christophe Clanet propose une réponse simple à l'aide de ces diagrammes : une situation devient dangereuse lorsque le but protégé devient une zone de domination d'un joueur adverse. Nous ne sommes malheureusement pas rentrés plus dans le détail ; on suppose que cela exclut les zones du gardien, qu'un attaquant hors-jeu est enlevé du système, etc. Mais le concept est formidablement intéressant. Toulousain et grand amateur de rugby, M. Clanet a emmené sa présentation sur le terrain du ballon ovale pour valider l'utilité et la pertinence des diagrammes de Voronoi. Revenant sur un France-Angleterre en juxtaposant les images diffusées à la TV (à gauche lors de la présentation) et les diagrammes de Voronoi en direct (à droite), l'auditoire s'est vu expliquer, de façon admirablement claire, comment l'analyse a « anticipé » un essai anglais. A l'issue d'un mouvement, une brèche dans la défense bleue est apparue nettement dans les images de Voronoi : une zone de domination d'un joueur anglais s'était immiscée dans la ligne bleue. Une ou deux secondes plus tard, on retrouvait ce même joueur à la TV utilisant l'espace pour inscrire l'essai britannique. "

"Est-ce que les centres sont une forme efficace d'attaque ? C'est la question sur laquelle Garry Gelade s'est penché en vue de l'OPTA Pro Forum 2017. Une interrogation d'actualité alors que le centre est présenté comme dépassé dans le football moderne mais reste une obsession anglaise."