Reading Time: 5 minutes Here’s a stats breakdown and comparison behind why Nikola Jokic deserves the MVP award and why Lauri Markkanen deserved the MIP award.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Here’s a stats breakdown and comparison behind why Nikola Jokic deserves the MVP award and why Lauri Markkanen deserved the MIP award.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Almost a third of the regular season has passed and there are some clear trends. Fenerbahce leads the way, all four 2022 Final 4 teams are playoff-bound, and four teams are just one win behind the payoff spots. A few questions are torturing my mind: will Panathinaikos continue their impressive run? Can Olympiacos recover from their slump? Will coaches Messina and Obradovic turn around the negative records that Armani and Partizan have?
Reading Time: 10 minutes This is an update to last year’s web scraping tutorial. I focus on getting data from my beloved fbref.com for Manchester City, the English Premier League 2021-22 champions. This guide uses R programming.
Reading Time: 5 minutes 2022 EuroLeague Final Four: The Spanish champions Barcelona against ten-time champions Real Madrid. Here is an analytics view of the Spanish El Clásico for EuroLeague glory.
Reading Time: 5 minutes 2022 EuroLeague Final Four: The reigning champions Anadolu Efes against three-time champions Olympiacos. Here is an analytics view of the battle for EuroLeague glory.
Reading Time: 6 minutes The EuroLeague playoff picture is still being defined. We know all 8 teams who will battle it out. What remains to be seen are the matchups.
I’m not the one to ask for predictions.
But I am the one to ask to present an advanced stats view.
Here’s a different reading of the EuroLeague 2021-22 season, with just one round left before the playoffs.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Israel Adesanya, the undisputed middleweight champion, will defend his belt against the former champ Robert Whittaker. Leading up to the title fight, we will see Derrick Lewis face Tai Tuivasa in a bout between two heavyweight knockout masters. Before that, middleweights Jared Cannonier and Derek Brunson face off.
What I want to add is a view of advanced stats and fight strategy for the three top bouts. All stats below and in the charts refer to data from the fighters’ UFC fights.
Reading Time: 6 minutes MMA fans, it’s time for the fights we’ve all been waiting for! We have two rematches where two sets of rivals will be battling for a belt. The welterweight title is up for grabs with #1 pound-for-pound fighter Kamaru Usman defending his belt against Colby Covington, two years after their incredible fight in UFC 245. The co-main event will be a rematch with Rose Namajunas defending her strawweight title against Weili Zhang, a few months after their fight in UFC 261 in late April 2021.
What I want to add is a view of advanced stats and fight strategy for the five top bouts. All stats below and in the charts refer to data from the fighters’ UFC fights.
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Reading Time: 13 minutes It’s time for another basketball analytics tutorial! This is for beginners and intermediate sports analytics enthusiasts. I will show you how to extract and prepare NBA data from basketball-reference.com and create a graph with a player’s career stats.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The first 14 rounds of this year’s EuroLeague have been quite exciting. What I do here is present the basic advanced statistics. A graphical representation of stats helps paint a better picture.
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Reading Time: 7 minutes MMA fans, it’s time for the fights we’ve all been waiting for! We have two rematches where two sets of rivals will be battling for a belt. The welterweight title is up for grabs with #1 pound-for-pound fighter Kamaru Usman defending his belt against Colby Covington, two years after their incredible fight in UFC 245. The co-main event will be a rematch with Rose Namajunas defending her strawweight title against Weili Zhang, a few months after their fight in UFC 261 in late April 2021.
What I want to add is a view of advanced stats and fight strategy for the five top bouts. All stats below and in the charts refer to data from the fighters’ UFC fights.
Reading Time: 6 minutes The first seven rounds of this year’s EuroLeague have been quite exciting. What I wanted to do here is present the basic advanced statistics. A graphical representation of stats helps paint a better picture.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Another exciting card has MMA fans across the world excited ahead of UFC 267. We have back to back championship doubleheaders following UFC 267. The light heavyweight title is up for grabs and Jan Blachowicz will defend it against Glover Teixeira. The interim bantamweight title is on the line too with former champ Petr Yan battling Cory Sandhagen.