@bcfremeau.bsky.social
College football possession efficiency, FEI ratings, and data visualization enthusiast. Post an interesting chart, I'm probably going to like it. Post a college football dataviz, hello new best friend. https://www.bcftoys.com
Early entry for most dad thing anyone has done this year?
Need a notation on this @neilpaine.bsky.social chart indicating precisely when @stevengodfrey.bsky.social and @celebrityhottub.bsky.social recorded the pod that turned things around...
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It’s very slick, makes me want to try a college football version of this too!
FUN and TRICKY "blind resume" game. I went stone cold in the Hard category, then got hot down the Expert stretch.
One of the things that fascinates me about the ubiquity of The Book is that it's literally still an actual, physical book that needs to be toted and flipped through. I'm surprised it isn't a more high tech solution, or maybe there's a rule against that?
Here's the second article: bsky.app/profile/seth...
Really enjoyed this pair of articles on The Book and the evolving game theory that influences college football coach decision making.
This Is March (when I begin to pay attention to smart people and good visual explainers of a sport I give some real attention to only one month out of the year)
Pauses in mid-air, mind you
Starting field position study based on 300k+ non-garbage offensive drives in FBS games since 2007
Starting field position study based on 300k+ non-garbage offensive drives in FBS games since 2007
SPORTS DATA DORK QUESTION
I am looking for a website(s) where I can potentially scrape simple W-L records by season for a variety of smaller college sports (soccer, volleyball, lax, etc). no advanced stats, just wins and losses.
sports reference isn't an option. other ideas? Here's why I want 'em:
Thank you! For now it’s all made in Illustrator while I work out the framework and design elements.
Every visualization sheds light on the chart designer’s priorities about what to include and what to omit. I wrote a bit about the choices I made with this one here: bcftoys.com/whiteboard/p...
Thanks!
Building on some #dataviz ideas I've been kicking around the last few weeks, I pulled a few elements together into an overall game possession and drive summary visualization template: bcftoys.com/whiteboard/p...
#Indiana #Miami #CFP
How about one last thread of awesome Winter Olympics photos? All via Getty Images. Photogs will be ID'd in each post.
Top left: Alex Pantling
Top right: Cameron Spencer
Bottom left: Michael Steele
Botom right: Patrick Smith (wow)
Christopher Nolan's hand-drawn map of Inception
"Spectators often would like to have a picture of the various plays ... so that any confusion as to what actually did occur may be seen at a glance. It may be possible that standards for this type of chart will evolve in the future." - Willard C. Brinton, 1939 #dataviz
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There's no time like the present to obsess over old school, hand-illustrated possession charts: bcftoys.com/whiteboard/n...
There's no time like the present to obsess over old school, hand-illustrated possession charts: bcftoys.com/whiteboard/n...
These are all so cool. Each of them has its own style and notation conventions.
Okay this one is wild, as it appears to predict the Stanford Band play sequence 90 years before it happens.
YES!
... working on that
Hat tip to @huskermax.bsky.social for pointing me to this 1907 game possession chart (via newspapers.com) published by the @startribune.com detailing an 8-5 victory by Minnesota over Nebraska. Kicks, rushes, fumbles, penalties, and a 110-yard field. Haven't come across an older cfb game chart yet...
MY COLUMN(UNIST MANIFESTO): I wrote about Indiana's incredible rise, JMU and the G6, 2005 Boise State-Georgia, manifest destiny, Frank Broyles, fainting couches and the super-league consolidation forces that threaten to make college football less college football-like.
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I’ve been working on better ways to visualize college football game data for as long as I’ve been collecting it. Let's punch up a basic drive summary table with some graphic elements:
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Thanks for the suggestion! I'm planning on adding one other color for now to highlight successful field goals, but you're right that there's an opportunity to encode other drive results too so they don't all wash together, I'll need to think about that.