Hello friends, and welcome to another installment of the Offseason Stat Series. Over the past few football-barren months, I’ve woven my way through the empirics of various aspects of the game of football, from punts to turnovers to field goals, and more. Last week, I began a naive approach towards constructing expected point values for each play in college football, for the purpose of using those values to determine how well or poorly a team performed over the course of a season.
As a matter of professional development, I’ve been re-working my way through Jim Albert’s masterful “Analyzing Baseball Data with R” book.