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UND Hockey Goals For
I was looking at some sports statistics these days and decided to look at the performance of UND hockey. Right now I am just looking at goals scored by UND, totaling it up across games in the season....
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UND Goals Allowed
Several people asked me to put up a graph for goals allowed to complement the goals scored graph I did before. In part this is due to the insane hockey following UND enjoys. Also, the recent stellar...
View ArticleBaseball Trivia Question
At the Cubs game last week they informed the crowd that Kris Bryant was only the 15th MLB player to win Rookie of the Year, MVP, and play on a World Series winner. I figured out the others. Feel free...
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Fun with numbers: Hockey analytics
A colleague and I are working on a predictive analytic model for hockey. Why? Because there is data available, and it seems a nice extension and a fun thing to do. And I really like working with...
View ArticleNew York Times article on UND Women’s Hockey
The recent article on women’s hockey in Grand Forks and at the University of North Dakota is an interesting read (link). What is more interesting is the additional discussion I heard on Bloomberg radio...
View ArticleNBA Players Union Should Vote to End “One and done”
Sports unions are a bit of a quandary. In part I think it has to do with the widespread differences in talent and therefore earnings potential within the union membership. That said, one thing I always...
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Cluster Analysis and Hockey
The sports business analytics class is going to learn cluster analysis tomorrow, specifically k-means cluster analysis. The lectures lately discussed some methods of data analysis, ways to go about...
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Time until goals for University of North Dakota
It is fun with data time. I am looking at the time until scoring goals for the University of North Dakota, comparing the 2020 season and the 2021 season. This is time of the season, in minutes, and...
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