Recently you might have seen an interesting ABC piece on Dustin Martin In it it features some graphs built using data that has just recently become available in fitzRoy thanks to fryziggg who has kindly made it available for fans of afl statistics everywhere. So what are the new things, ...

So you might have seen an article from someone who has a weird simpsons display picture about the sorry state of AFL analytics. This isn’t saying that AFL work is poor as a whole or that people within AFL circles aren’t capable of good work. This just points ...

I got an email from Alex Zanidean, who runs the xmrr package “You might enjoy my package xmrr for similar charts – but mine recalculate the bounds automatically” and if we go to the vingette, “XMRs combine X-Bar control charts and Moving Range control charts. These functions also will recalculate the ...

Who doesn’t like a wikipedia entry control chart If analysis of the control chart indicates that the process is currently under control (i.e., is stable, with variation only coming from sources common to the process), then no corrections or changes to process control parameters are needed or desired ...

One of the things I have always wondered about AFL fantasy is just who is the best fantasy player of all time? Not the fan who wins the most but who is the best player. So one possible idea would be to work out the fantasy scores of players going ...

So it is approaching AFL mens season, which means that soon everyones twitter feed, Facebook and emails will get clogged up with various tipsters. People saying they have won at 60% of the time over last season and therefor you should pay them money and follow their tips! But how can ...

As its been pointed out to me on that it would be handy if within fitzRoy that it should contain past players data from footywire. So here is roughly how to do that. Step 1 - get all the packages you need

library(rvest)

## Loading required package: xml2

library(tidyverse)

## ── Attaching packages ──────────────── tidyverse 1.2.1 ──

## ✔ ggplot2 3.1.0       ✔ purrr   0.3.0  
## ✔ tibble  2.0.1       ✔ dplyr   0.8.0.1
## ✔ tidyr   0.8.3       ✔ stringr 1.4.0  
## ✔ readr   1.3.1       ✔ forcats 0.4.0

## ── Conflicts ─────────────────── tidyverse_conflicts() ──
## ✖ dplyr::filter()         masks stats::filter()
## ✖ readr::guess_encoding() masks rvest::guess_encoding()
## ✖ dplyr::lag()            masks stats::lag()
## ✖ purrr::pluck()          masks rvest::pluck()

library(naniar)

naniar isn’...

Selby Lee Steere has won AFL fantasy two years in a row. He is the coach of Moreiras Magic and through selling his fantasy guide donates a lot of money to the Starlight foundation. I was lucky enough to do an interview with him talking about his strategies in winning ...

Today unfortunetely one of the games best players and the current Bronwnlow Medalist Tom Mitchell has been injured and will probably miss the whole 2019 AFL season. This is horrible news as he was just coming off arguably his best season (winning the Brownlow Medal). He’s an incredibly gifted inside ...

So its draft time in AFL at the moment and being a keen fan on all drafting I was a little disappointing with the coverage. Not because there were not people doing some interesting work. We had a great article on ABC by the guys over at HPN who were ...

Recently I saw this tweet at James Coventry the author of footballistics. It got me thinking that this would be an interesting example now that we have players heights, position and weight to answer this kind of question. This by no means is meant to be a rigorous statistical analysis ...

Link to paper here As a summary, I think the paper is about seeing if “box score” data can be used to predict the winner of a game. Put another way, if I were to show you the AFL stats on say footywire at the end of a game and ...