DATA VISUALIZATION:
- Data viz archives (Warning: some horrific vizzes await)
BLOGS:
2018
- Course history revisited: using length as an indicator of course fit (February 28th, 2018)
2017
- Does a player’s course history predict performance? (December 27th, 2017)
- Live prediction model: the week that was (October 19th, 2017)
- Brief summary of our 2017 in golf betting (October 10th, 2017)
- Which is more important: putting or ball-striking? (September 29th, 2017)
- The luck of the draw (August 7th, 2017)
- What’s wrong with Rory? (July 14th, 2017)
- Benchmarking the model’s betting performance through 17 weeks (June 21st, 2017)
- Revisiting the question of pressure in golf (June 10th, 2017)
- A golf fan’s reflection (April 21st, 2017)
- How’s the model doing so far? (April 10th, 2017)
- An intergenerational approach to ranking PGA TOUR players (April 1st, 2017)
- Predicting the WGC Match Play (March 20th, 2017)
- Differences in field quality on the US and European tours (February 17th, 2017)
- A predictive model of tournament outcomes on the PGA TOUR (February 14th, 2017)
- Penalty strokes on the PGA TOUR (January 14th, 2017)
- The hot-hand fallacy: application to golf (January 10th, 2017)
- Is golf’s next generation as good as we say they are? (January 8th, 2017)
2016
- Tiger’s performance following long layoffs (November 28th, 2016)
- How hard is it to follow up a great round with a good one? (October 9th, 2016)
- Quantifying the Tiger Effect (September 23, 2016)
- Does success predict more success for Ryder Cup partners? (September 1, 2016)
- How much deeper has golf become in the last 25 years? (August 13th, 2016)
- Distance-adjusted driving accuracy (August 7th, 2016)
- How informative is a year’s worth of strokes-gained data? (August 3rd, 2016)
- Strokes-gained when in contention (July 27th, 2016)
- Dropping the anchor (July 21st, 2016)
- Tiger destroyed his playing partners (July 20th, 2016)
- First tee jitters (July 16th, 2016)
- Pressure in golf – can we quantify it? (July 14th, 2016)
- Tiger vs. Jordan vs. Rory – who’s best? (July 14th, 2016)
- Match play data exploration exercise (July, 6th, 2016)
- #HangitupMike (June 29th, 2016)
- Simple linear regression – how to interpret estimates (June 29th, 2016)
- Random forests with python (June 29th, 2016)
- The blog (June 22nd, 2016)