Posted by Andy McGeady on April 22, 2015 · 1 Comment
The Pro12 tiebreaker rules mean that points difference means nothing to Leinster now. It's time for try-fests.
Category Sport · Tags Connacht, guinness pro 12, leinster, matches won, Munster, points difference, pro12, rugby, tiebreaker, tries scored, Ulster, wins
Posted by Andy McGeady on April 16, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Ahead of Leinster's Champions Cup semi final meeting with Toulon, some Leinster writing.
Posted by Andy McGeady on April 16, 2015 · Leave a Comment
This year's CDW ShotLink Intelligence Prize winner examined choking in golf, and trying to measure that. As it was Masters week I wrote about that. And other golfing stats stuff.
Posted by Andy McGeady on April 16, 2015 · 1 Comment
I talked to former Wallaby prop Ben Darwin, founder of analytics firm Gain Line, about what he calls "Cohesion".
Posted by Andy McGeady on April 16, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Why even if Irish players are not dotted all over the "official" Six Nations stats leaderboards they're still doing plenty of valuable work.
Posted by Andy McGeady on March 24, 2015 · Leave a Comment
I wrote about the flaws in Kicking Percentage for the Irish Times, and how some people are doing a better job at rating place kickers.
Posted by Andy McGeady on March 11, 2015 · Leave a Comment
An Irish Times column about Paul O'Connell's test debut in 2002 and his long test career to follow. Also reference to some other Irish sporting centurions.
Posted by Andy McGeady on March 8, 2015 · 2 Comments
The second part. Kirk Goldsberry on breaking the game he loves and the NHL's Brian Burke on, well, everything. And some final thoughts on how Sloan is changing.
Posted by Andy McGeady on March 4, 2015 · 3 Comments
As promised. And it is indeed stupidly long. This is just part one. Grab a cuppa, settle in. It's time to Sloan.
Category Sport · Tags #ssac15, chris anderson, daryl morey, Edward Tufte, michael lewis, michael niemeyer, Opta, shane battier, Sloan, Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, stats
Posted by Andy McGeady on March 4, 2015 · 2 Comments
There was a decent Irish turnout at Sloan 2015 but a serious lack of European soccer presence. A report for the Irish Times.
