stat of the week
Sports Analytics Club: The Peak stat of the week
March 5, 2018By: Dani Chu and Matthew Ryers With SFU golf set to begin for the 2018 season, it’s a good time to brush up on the stat that revolutionized the way we evaluate golfers. The “strokes gained” family of statistics evaluates a golfers performance against his peers, instead of simply looking at basic counting statistics. In 2011, Mark Broadie, a professor at the Columbia Business School, noticed that traditional golf statistics such as putts per green are limited as they are affected by the distance of the putt. He proceeded to develop the strokes gained metrics to account for the proximity…
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Sports Analytics Club: The Peak stat of the week
February 12, 2018By: Dani Chu and Matthew Ryers With yet another exciting Super Bowl behind us, National Football League (NFL) teams cross off the 2017–18 season and look towards the future. Many teams will need to reflect and rebuild this offseason and…
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Sports Analytics Club: The Peak stat of the week
January 30, 2018By: Dani Chu and Matthew Ryers With the advancement of technology in the sports world, new stats pop up almost daily to try and better explain individual and team performance. In this column, we plan to discuss the history, usefulness,…
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