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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Charting a game in real-time: NHL
As much as FIELDf/x will be great for fielders, a PASSf/x in the NHL would be far better. For fielding, you don’t need much sample size in order to get a good reading on a player, if you have FIELDf/x data. But for passing in the NHL, things are much different. The reason is the context. For a fielder, we need to know hang time, vector, and starting position of fielder. For a passer in the NHL, your intended target is moving, you are moving, and you have opponents who are also moving, and the choice is to pass or skate up. Every pass opportunity is different. A PASSf/x system would capture all that 4-D parameters, and you’d need a sizeable sample size in order to figure out a player’s true passing talent level. What you see here, with many hours of effort, is just the tip of the iceberg as to what you’d have to do. I love that there’s enough crazy people in this world willing to do this kind of work.
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