Michael Lopez

Data & Analytics @NFL, with stops at Skidmore (Asst Prof), Brown (PhD), UMass (MS), and Bates (Math, 🏈)

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Mean or median?

[Kevin Quealy @KevinQ]

Nice charts this morning from @EmilyGiam and @jonahesmith, showing day-to-day hotel prices in World Cup host markets in extreme detail.

[neRd quality @nerdquality_]

Eric Eager (Chief Nerd for the Panthers) was featured in s4e1 of Panthers Blueprint

Fans get a peek into Eric's war room setup:

👉live % odds of player availability
👉dynamic trade scenario risk calcs
👉GM Dan Morgan's "gut feel" instincts encoded as a weighted model feature

[Seth Walder @SethWalder]

In here is a promotion for Max Napolitano to Vice President, Football Administration and Strategy.

Miami made more analytics promotions, too:

Ella Summer was promoted to Director, Football Analytics and Rachael Kaplan was promoted to Football Analyst.

[Steve Politi @StevePoliti]

We talked to nearly 100 people about youth sports in New Jersey and found a predatory industry that is leaving parents broke, exhausted and wondering how the games of their childhood took over their adult lives. Our six-month investigation: https://t.co/plE3w618qt

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Happy 15th anniversary to @MandelSNY and I falling thru the TD Garden balcony at the end of Bruins Lightning Game 7

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

tbt to 5 yrs ago, when @MandelSNY and I fell through TD Garden during Game 7 of the ECF https://t.co/jY4kOnBhgb

[Seth Walder @SethWalder]

The Raiders are hiring a Football Data Science Assistant:

https://t.co/UEhofvwqrt

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Luke and Micah (ht @LukeBornn @IneffectiveMath)

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Stephanie Kovalchik (@StatsOnTheT) has a new book out with history of many sports analytics stories/people https://t.co/GIuhN3vtIT

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Original research here

[Tom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh]

OK I did it. I tracked over 1,000 shots for SGA, Brunson, Harden, Spida and Wemby in the playoffs. Here's how often they fell: https://t.co/0Vgr3ibDyP

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

So @tomhaberstroh’s research of players falling down was great, but one more thought:

Does a foul cause a fall down? Or does a fall down cause a foul?

We can backtrack the odds of a foul using Tom’s table

For SGA, his odds of drawing a foul were 5x higher when he fell down.

[Ron Yurko @Stat_Ron]

Strongly recommend checking out a new #sportsanalytics book by (one of the best in the field) Stephanie Kovalchik (@StatsOnTheT ) called - 'Out of Left Field: Improbable stories in sports analytics' https://t.co/VZZMaCkCTj Order it now! https://t.co/9pXgr7xQxr

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Lamppost analytics OG

[Mike Vorkunov @MikeVorkunov]

NHL may be slow to brace analytics. Brian Burke: "Statistics are like a lamppost to a drunk," good for support not illumination #ssac13

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Josh must’ve heard Brian Burke’s repeated references at Sloan

[SNY Knicks @sny_knicks]

"I'm never a huge analytics guy. At a certain point, they're a lamppost to a drunk person. You can lean on them, but it won't get you home." 😂

- Josh Hart

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Lamppost was my hockey model’s name during MannyElk’s modeling contest back in 2017

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

@MannyElk This year, follow along as I (model name: Lamppost) and other basement-dwellers make predictions NHL games https://t.co/Rv8ICpHNl8

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Still winning, this time in the PWHL

[Thibaud Chatel @Thibaud_Chatel]

@quarkyhockey @hunterofstats Nerds don't win cups apparently.......

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

"What has sports analytics ever won?"

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

@SunnyMehtaX A Lombardi pic hopefully coming soon.

For now, here's the Seahawks crew (Becca, Patrick, Peter, and Brian) with the NFC trophy

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Filter to 5v5 goals, do a geom_density of xG, color = isOvertime

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

"There is nothing that is a bad shot in (an NHL) Overtime"

Is there any evidence that the shot quality of NHL playoff overtime goals is any different than the shot quality of playoff goals in Regulation?

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

The Ravens are hiring a data scientist (https://t.co/mG6PPSlwya) and football systems developer (https://t.co/4mhajtDeeC)

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Still relevant

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

The NFL's schedule release is tomorrow night.

Relevant to the inevitable discussion -- @DataWithBliss and I looked at the impact of rest difference on game outcomes https://t.co/4ZGc2oDaWH

[Michael Caley @MC_of_A]

from my Expecting Goals study on the origins of the set piece revolution

you can clearly see Arsenal as the innovators who introduced the meat wall tactic to the Premier League