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Football is the least amenable major American sport to estimate all player contributions due to fewer player stats, scoring events, and games.
Football is the least amenable major American sport to estimate all player contributions due to fewer player stats, scoring events, and games. Objective evaluation of player value has long contributed to decision making surrounding baseball and basketball players. In football the value of non-skill positions has been limited to scouting methods. I provide a model framework independent of scouting methods that allows for a data-only approach to evaluate all positions and players in both college and the NFL.
The first two times you hit a ball in a rally matter more to winning a point in tennis than all the shots that follow. Traditional tennis statistics focus on simple metrics such as first serve percentages and unforced errors. We identify how the point starts and ends but fail to acknowledge how many shots were struck. The most important metric in tennis has been hiding in plain sight for generations.
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