MLB The 7 Seconds or Less Suns, Gordie Howe Hat Tricks, and Other Sports Myths That Simply Aren’t True Unsurprisingly, not all of the great sports legends are true. In fact, with the data to back it up, we can prove that some are blatantly false. 3 years ago Andrew Fenichel
Uncategorized Introducing The Analyst: A Fan Destination for Data-Driven Storytelling Welcome to The Analyst, Stats Perform's home for data-driven storytelling. 3 years ago Kevin Chroust, Duncan Alexander
Football Shape Analysis: Automatically Detecting Formations Shape Analysis uses tracking data to automatically identify a team’s shape, both in and out of possession, during a game. 3 years ago Jonny Whitmore, Thomas Seidl
Metric Explainers Raw Value: A Comprehensive Pitch-by-Pitch Player Evaluation By now, every analytical baseball mind knows there are countless statistics like batting average, slugging percentage and RBIs that evaluate performance based on the cumulative result of a player’s at-bats.… 3 years ago The Analyst
Football Identifying Patterns with Movement Chains Movement chains describe the patterns of four player involvements in a passage of play by displaying the locations of the first touches. 3 years ago Jonny Whitmore, Danny Dinsdale
Metric Explainers Whiff+: A Look at Which Pitchers Dominate by Generating Swings and Misses Whiff rate doesn't paint an accurate picture when it comes to measuring a pitcher's stuff. Whiff+ accounts for what whiff rate does not. 3 years ago The Analyst
Metric Explainers What Is Possession Value (PV)? Possessive Value assigns credit to individual players based on their positive and negative contributions on the ball. But how does it work? 3 years ago Jonny Whitmore
Metric Explainers BIP+: Which Batters Do the Most Damage After Making Contact? In this installment of a series on advanced baseball metrics, we look at what BIP+ reveals about Miguel Sano’s raw power and how Javier Baez could get back on track. For… 3 years ago Taylor Bechtold
Football Sequences and Possessions in Football Stats Perform’s possessions framework strings together consecutive events into sequences in order to provide a more detailed picture of what’s happening on the pitch. 3 years ago Jonny Whitmore
Metric Explainers Discipline+: Why Not Every Decision to Swing is Created Equal We’re taking a close look at discipline+ to discover what it tells us about the versatility of Mike Trout, Juan Soto and Ronald Acuna Jr. For a look at which players… 3 years ago The Analyst
