Publications by Analysis of AFL
Do Ruckman Mature later
Recently I saw this tweet at James Coventry the author of footballistics. It got me thinking that this would be an interesting example now that we have players heights, position and weight to answer this kind of question. This by no means is meant to be a rigorous statistical analysis full of models. But more of a fun one with a few graphs and ho...
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Age a factor?
fitzRoy is as always a work in progress and I know that James and I are always keen on getting ideas on how to encourage users to produce great content that hopefully we all love to read, learn and debate. One of my personal favourite bloggers Tony over at matterofstats has some thoughts on age vs experience. To investigate this you need a couple...
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Making a one pager
Why might having a one pager be handy. You might be really into fantasy sports so want to keep information like points given up by position handy. Lets say you are playing a mate in your favourite fantasy league, having information like points given up by a team to a position tends to be handy. It’s nothing new, in fact fantasy sports is big ...
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Make your own PAV
The idea behind the description recreate to create is that to make your own rating system be it a player one or a team one, a good first step is to recreate what you see and then add in your own opinion to create your own system. The guys over at HPN have their own player rating system called PAV which stands for Player Approximate Value. You can...
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Poor Tom Mitchell
Today unfortunetely one of the games best players and the current Bronwnlow Medalist Tom Mitchell has been injured and will probably miss the whole 2019 AFL season. This is horrible news as he was just coming off arguably his best season (winning the Brownlow Medal). He’s an incredibly gifted inside player who through the Hawks savvy recruiting...
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PlayerIds
Something that has been talked a bit about recently on twitter is the the use of unique playerIDs so that fan analysts, punters and bloggers can track players through time. There are some things that need to be thought about when creating unique playerIDS for analysis. Do you want your IDS to be unique across datasets or do you need them to work...
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Fantasy Tips From the Fantasy King
Selby Lee Steere has won AFL fantasy two years in a row. He is the coach of Moreiras Magic and through selling his fantasy guide donates a lot of money to the Starlight foundation. I was lucky enough to do an interview with him talking about his strategies in winning fantasy. AFL fantasy scores as opposed to supercoach scores are able to be fully...
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Scraping old player data
As its been pointed out to me on that it would be handy if within fitzRoy that it should contain past players data from footywire. So here is roughly how to do that. Step 1 – get all the packages you need library(rvest) ## Loading required package: xml2 library(tidyverse) ## ── Attaching packages ─────────────�...
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Tipster Season
So it is approaching AFL mens season, which means that soon everyones twitter feed, Facebook and emails will get clogged up with various tipsters. People saying they have won at 60% of the time over last season and therefor you should pay them money and follow their tips! But how can you assess the accuracy of a tipster? Very few would allow a fu...
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Best Fantasy Player of All Time
One of the things I have always wondered about AFL fantasy is just who is the best fantasy player of all time? Not the fan who wins the most but who is the best player. So one possible idea would be to work out the fantasy scores of players going back for all the time that is possible (YAY fitzRoy!). From there, lets look at the z-score of player...
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