Questions tagged [statistics]
The collection of statistics in sports and how they are used. Please also tag questions with the sport or sports being referred to.
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How likely is it for a pure singles hitter to have an OPS of 1.000 or greater? [closed]
In my mind, OPS is a function primarily of XBH. But I saw a stat today that Ichiro had an OPS+ of 1.22. (I'm not sure what the time frame was)
I would think that hitters like him, Tony Gwynn and ...
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Have all promoted teams from one season of the united German Bundesliga ever been relegated in the following season?
Have all the promoted teams in one season ever been relegated in the following season?
The most recent season when this "almost" happened was 2012/13, when two previously promoted teams got ...
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Keeping Red Zone Stats
If a team enters the red zone and then gets sacked out of the red zone. On the next play they get into the redzone again. Then they score on the next play. Does this mean the team is 1-2 in the red ...
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Scores of men's vs. women's teams
In some sports, two teams compete against each other for a set amount of time (e.g. soccer, basketball) or another fixed quantity (like baseball). In those sports, do men's teams score more points on ...
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Difference between turnover and steals
In the NBA app, I was reading the statistics of the match Lakers vs Kings.
In particular, Lakers have 10 steals, Kings have 5 steals. Moreover, Lakers have 14 turnovers, while Kings have 16 turnovers....
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Volleyball Hitting Stat Clarification
If a hitter hits the ball out-of-bounds, but the opposing blocker is call for net violation before the ball lands out-of-bounds, does the hitter get both an attempt and a hitting error recorded or ...
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How do you calculate a ten-pin bowling strike rate?
I'm a USBC League Bowler, and I'm tracking my own stats, and I want to know my Strike Rate Percentage.
Theoretically, you would take and divide the number of frames bowled by the number of strikes ...
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Why is it a considered a passing touchdown in cases when the receiver gains most of the yards?
I don't understand why it is considered a passing touchdown that accrues to the QB's stats, in cases when the receiver gains most of the yards. Consider a 5 yard pass where the receiver then runs 90 ...
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Teams losing games despite scoring runs
How many times has an MLB team lost a game after scoring 10 or more runs?
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Is there a difference between a service winner and an ace in tennis?
As a tennis player and fan myself, this has always been a question that I have wondered about. I know that an ace is when a serve that is in the box goes through untouched. Is a service winner a serve ...
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Teams winning games despite issuing numerous walks
How many times has an MLB team won a game after issuing 12 or more walks?
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Lowest career WAR for a 2-time+ all-star?
Of all MLB players who have made the all-star team at least twice, who has the lowest career WAR?
Is there a way to answer this question with baseball-reference or mlb savant? Or do you have to write ...
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How much does an NHL power play improve chances of scoring?
How much does being on a power play improve an NHL team's chances of scoring a goal? I know the likelyhood of a team scoring on a power play is about 20%. But what is the likelihood of a team scoring ...
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Has there ever been a zero-pitch save?
It occasionally happens that a pitcher will earn a save by throwing one pitch. For example, he is brought in with two outs in the ninth and a two-run lead, and his first pitch is popped up.
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How does the runner placed at second base in extra innings affect Earned Run Average?
Normally the pitcher who allows a runner to reach base is charged with the run if the runner eventually reaches home, even if the pitcher is replaced before the runner scores. If the run is an earned ...
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Where to find advanced stats like PER and Win Shares for Division 1 College Basketball players in the NCAA?
Is there any comprehensive centralised online resource where I can find advanced stats/metrics for free or at least relatively inexpensive?
At a minimum I would like to start with Player Efficiency ...
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What is the percentage of goals scored in extra time in the top 5 European leagues?
I was wondering what the percentage of goals scored in added time (45+1', 45+2', 45+3', ..., 90+1', 90+2', 90+3', ...) is. Are there any statistics showing this?
Ideally, I would be interested in ...
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In tennis, what is the percentage of broken service games?
Looking at Befair tennis, what is the percentage of broken service games?
If both players are fairly evenly matched, how many times does a player lose his service game?
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Sabermetrics Applied to American Football, Specifically the NFL
Sabermetrics and advanced stats have become a big part of baseball in the recent years. Defensive shifts are growing rapidly. "Old School" stats are becoming less relevant compare to "New School" ...
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What is the average height in the NBA?
Personally, I'm curious what the mean, median, and mode average heights are in the NBA. From what I can find it looks like the mean average is about 6'7”, but I can't find any trace of median or mode ...
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Where can I find data of NFL players and clubs?
I am going to take Spanish soccer league players and clubs data from a business API.
The purpose is to generate a quiz app with questions as "Which player has scored more goals this season?" ...
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What does the "big chances created" stats mean in Soccer?
There is a stats which is appearing frequently lately in soccer websites, which is named "big chances created", probably taken from one of those companies making statistics from the matches. ...
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Is this a steal or a block and rebound?
This was recorded as a steal. I'm wondering how this can be justified. It looks like McDaniels tries to tip it in. If that's the case, then how can it be ruled a steal? Here is the clip.
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Are there any standard metrics in use that take into account the "variability" in a pitcher's ERA?
Early in his career (as a Pirate), current ace Charlie Morton once gave up ten runs in a single inning. That's a bad, 90.00 ERA for that one "frame."
But you can only lose one game at a time....
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How many assists did Pelé give in world cups?
I've found 3 different statistics for Pelé assists in world cups. One puts him as the all time top assist provider, another with a shared record, and another with no record at all.
This source, Most ...
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Who is the best striker (best goals/appearances ratio) with 25/50/100+ national caps?
Zlatan Ibrahimovic recently had his 50 goals milestone (also a national record for Sweden) prior to with 100 appearance for the team. With 50 goals in 100 games he's averaging a goal in every second ...
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Penalty shot/kick conversion rates: Football versus Ice Hockey
What is the conversion rate of penalties in football versus ice hockey?
I realise that it would be different between, and dependent on the league but any two major leagues of comparable level would be ...
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What does "completed x-for-y passes" mean?
What does it mean to say that a quarterback completed x-for-y passes? That is different than the average yards per rush or yards per completion, right?
Background:
One article states "During the ...
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What's the worst defeat of a host nation in World Cup history?
Brazil, the host nation of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, lost to Germany 7-1. This seems like a very big defeat in term of goal difference. What is the worst defeat of a host nation in World Cup history in ...
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How many assists did Maradona give in World Cups?
There are several websites stating this top for World Cup assists
1- Pele (10)
2- Messi (6)
3- James Rodriguez (5)
4- Juan Cuadrado (5)
5- Thomas Muller (4)
Most assists in World cup
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What would explain the large jumps in performance in the Men's 50m Freestyle Long Course World Records?
I made a graph showing the world record for the Men's 50m freestyle (long course) swimming.
I noticed that there were significant performance jumps in 1980 and 2008. Otherwise, the times remain stable ...
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Are there sports in which game theory is explicitly used?
Game theory [interactive decision theory] is mainly used in economics, political science, and psychology, as well as logic and biology.
I believe that I know that tennis serving and football penalty ...
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Base Out State Probabilities by Batting Order Position
I am looking for the number of PA's (Plate Appearances) that occurred in each of the 24 possible base-out states split by batting order position. I am interested especially in the years 2010-2015 in ...
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Is there any data on how successful runners are at stealing third base with right-handed vs. left-handed batters?
According to an article, between 1998 and 2002, base runners successfully stole second base 69% of the time, and they successfully stole third base 72% of the time.
It might seem that it should be ...
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Elo-like metrics that replace ERA/BA/OBP that account for the strengths of the pitcher/batter?
In Chess, the standard metric is Elo, which weighs losses against "bad" players more heavily than losses against "good" players. Same for the opposite scenario (winning against bad ...
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What team has the shortest "longest losing streak" within a season in MLB history?
Don't know if the wording of the title makes sense, but I want to know what team had the longest losing streak that was the shortest in MLB history (or at least the live ball era)
A completely made ...
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How often does a betting-house's odds change for a given event 1) before and 2) during the event?
I understand that this is VERY dependent on the specific sporting event, but I was hoping to find some representative averages and ranges ... beyond somewhere between a few times-per-day before the ...
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What does the superscript used in tennis scores mean?
In the score below, what do the 7 and 4 superscripts mean in the first set?
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In Statistics, Does a Missed Shot While Being Fouled Still Count as a Missed Shot?
During a game, players get fouled a lot, and they often throw up a shot, to try to have an opportunity to get more points. When you throw up a shot while fouled, in your game statistics, does it count ...
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Do team owners earn or spend money for their clubs?
Are there statistics that collect information about the cash flow of sports clubs?
What I am wondering is, in general do the team owners have to spend money to manage the club, for passion (I hope), ...
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NFL Combine Worst Performances
I am attempting to clean a data set of NFL Combine performances; because some values of the data set are physically impossible, I would like to know the best and worst performances in the combine (to ...
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Does the NHL provide guidelines for collecting stats?
Does the NHL or any other league provide guidelines for use by league statisticians? E.g. for giveaways, takeaways, checks, possession, etc.
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How many assists did Johan Cruyff give for his national team?
Transfermarkt lists Johan Cruyff's assists when playing in clubs with full detail as being 148. Johan Cruyff career stats.
However, it doesn't list Johan Cruyff's assists for his national team, ...
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What is the longest drive in the NFL with consideration for penalty yardage?
I have attempted to search for this answer before, but often end up getting answers akin to the longest distance a drive has taken between goal lines, hence the answer is something like 99 yards. ...
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Origin of the formula for weighted stolen base runs (wSB)
I am considering the formula for weighted stolen base runs (wSB), which is given as
wSB = a * SB + b * CS - lgwSB * (1B + uBB + HBP)
and a = 0.2 and b = (-2 * RunsPerOut + 0.075).
I have two questions:...
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All time QB with the worst December+ INT ratio
For a long time I've been a fan of Matthew Stafford. He had suffered in Detroit for years. Detroit, in their best years would appear to have their playoff hopes get dashed in December.
It seems that ...
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What is the biggest sports stadium in the world?
Which sports stadium (meaning any building designed to host sporting events) in the world, is the largest and who plays there? I'm thinking the largest as in the amount of people it can hold, but if ...
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Shot on target with deflection - a goal or an own goal
It's generally accepted that if a shot was on target but then deflected from another team's player and went in, then the goal is not considered as an own goal. "Generally accepted", because there are ...
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Is there a correlation between goalkeeper height and penalty save rate?
A tall goalkeeper can be quite intimidating for a penalty taker. Is there any research or statistics that actually shows that there is a correlation between goalkeeper height and penalty save rate?
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Does being the player who kicked the ball, when the opponent scores an own goal, count as an assist?
I'm seeing a lot of comments saying Messi gave an assist because an opposing Nantes player changed the direction of a ball kicked by Messi, and this action lead to a goal against Nantes. I've even ...
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