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