Data is fun, and it’s everywhere! Increased accessibility has transformed the way people consume and participate in sports, business, health, and personal finance. Come with me on my journey shining an analytical light on the unexplored nooks of these areas and more. If we’re lucky, we’ll uncover some earth-shattering, mind-blowing, or downright weird statistical insights along the way.
Sleeper API in Excel Power Query: Payout Tracker
Fantasy sports platform Sleeper has developed an API to give players access to a trove of league-specific data that is not publicly accessible on other platforms. Things like like historical roster makeup, results over time, and setting changes are now easily viewable…
Keep readingOffseason Training
A few months ago I decided to combat my usual winter descent into laziness by purchasing an exercise bike. Naturally, with this big purchase came my desire to use data to track my progress throughout the winter. Namely: Introducing the Hyzermetrics Workout…
Keep readingHyzermetrics Head2Head
The disc golf careers of legends Ken Climo and Paul McBeth overlapped for over a decade. In the mid-2010s, As Ken Climo began playing fewer tournaments, and even fewer in the MPO division, McBeth’s domination began. Although we won’t ever get to…
Keep readingThe Hyzermetrics Eventfinder: the New Way to find your Next PDGA Tournament
As hinted in my last post, the ability to systematically match PDGA Events with their corresponding Event Numbers has a number of implications that can help disc golfers make sense of the ever-growing amount of data available on the web. The Hyzermetrics…
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