Past Articles in Analytics
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Mailbag: TCT Cash Prizes, Advanced Analytics
The sport's back.
Jun 11, 2021 by Charlie Eisenhood in Opinion with 0 comments
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FiveThirtyEight Talks Ultimate Analytics On Podcast
FiveThirtyEight, which published a pair of features about ultimate last month, continued the discussion on the site’s Hot Takedown podcast.
Jan 6, 2016 by Charlie Eisenhood in Livewire, Video with 0 comments
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Five Thirty Eight Dives Deep On Lack Of Analytics In Ultimate
Can the analytics movement in ultimate breathe new life?
Dec 15, 2015 by Charlie Eisenhood in Analysis with 3 comments
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Wall Street Journal Features Ultiworld Stats On Front Page
The Wall Street Journal ran a front page story about ultimate's advanced analytics, pioneered by Ultiworld's Sean Childers and Jeremy Weiss.
Jul 9, 2014 by Charlie Eisenhood in News with 11 comments
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Goals And Assists? Who Cares: Why You Should Take A Team Approach To Statistics
I originally wrote this statistics primer for was introducing the sabermetric approach, of statistically understanding baseball, to the masses.
Aug 26, 2013 by Brett Matzuka in Analysis with 10 comments
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Quantifying Player Value: Introducing ‘Expected Contribution’ And Ranking The 2013 NexGen Team
No one in Ultimate seriously believes simple statistics like goals, assists, or blocks fairly measure a player’s overall worth. But our new 'expected contribution' statistic - which summarizes each player’s involvement in one overall number -- is a first serious attempt to do exactly this.
Aug 13, 2013 by Sean Childers, Jeremy Weiss and Husayn Carnegie in Analysis
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How Do We Define Good Defense?
When we talk, think, and strategize about Ultimate, defensive skill sometimes takes a back seat to offensive play. But we have begun to search for new ways to quantify good defense. Here we introduce one of those: the Ultiworld D rating.
Jul 1, 2013 by Sean Childers and Kahyee Fong in Analysis with 28 comments