Dolphins Analytics Thread?

[Dolfanalyst]

Just joined the forum.  Glad to be here.  Been a Dolphins fan since the early 1980s. 

I'm wondering if people here would be interested in a thread devoted to discussing the Dolphins from an "analytics" point of view.

If you're unfamiliar with the concept, this article may be informative:

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/11/19/nfl-tv-broadcasts-advanced-stats

[Tenshot13]

Welcome to the forums!  I work as a data analyst for our analytics product at work, so this would interest me.

[Phishfan]

It would be kind of cool.

[Rich]

Just joined the forum.  Glad to be here.  Been a Dolphins fan since the early 1980s. 

I'm wondering if people here would be interested in a thread devoted to discussing the Dolphins from an "analytics" point of view.

If you're unfamiliar with the concept, this article may be informative:

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/11/19/nfl-tv-broadcasts-advanced-stats

Are you a Native Miamian?

[Dolfanalyst]

Welcome to the forums!  I work as a data analyst for our analytics product at work, so this would interest me.

Excellent -- thanks. 

[Run Ricky Run]

Welcome please let everybody know how Jarvis Landry is worse than an average nfl wr. Thank you

[Dolfanalyst]

Welcome please let everybody know how Jarvis Landry is worse than an average nfl wr. Thank you

We could certainly discuss that from an analytics perspective.  On what do you base that statement?

[Rich]

We could certainly discuss that from an analytics perspective.  On what do you base that statement?

His yards per throw or something.

Data is great, but taking one piece of data to tell a story is silly.

[Dolfanalyst]

His yards per throw or something.

Data is great, but taking one piece of data to tell a story is silly.

It sure could be, and data could tell us that, as well, i.e., how silly (or not) it would be to rely on only one piece of data.

[Phishfan]

His yards per throw or something.

Data is great, but taking one piece of data to tell a story is silly.

That is what is great about analytics. If you have the tool, you aren't just using one piece of data.

[Sunstroke]

Stats are good, but only as long as (to paraphrase Lang...or Houseman) we don't use statistics as a drunkard uses a lamppost, for support rather than illumination.

Welcome to the boards, Dolfanalyst...get down with your funky data-crunching self.

[Dolfanalyst]

Stats are good, but only as long as (to paraphrase Lang...or Houseman) we don't use statistics as a drunkard uses a lamppost, for support rather than illumination.

Welcome to the boards, Dolfanalyst...get down with your funky data-crunching self.

Thanks much. 

There is also the converse, however, where we use no data and instead use the perceptions and opinions of others as the "lamppost."

Before you know it, you have a group of people who all believe the same thing, having had their perceptions and beliefs "validated" by each other, and the whole group is wrong.

[Dolfanalyst]

That is what is great about analytics. If you have the tool, you aren't just using one piece of data.

Very true.  This is a great article in that regard:

http://archive.advancedfootballanalytics.com/2007/07/what-makes-teams-win-part-1.html

[Rich]

Thanks much. 

There is also the converse, however, where we use no data and instead use the perceptions and opinions of others as the "lamppost."

Before you know it, you have a group of people who all believe the same thing, having had their perceptions and beliefs "validated" by each other, and the whole group is wrong.

And then you have a whole group that is wrong because they pick and choose the data and feed it to others as gospel.

[Dolfanalyst]

And then you have a whole group that is wrong because they pick and choose the data and feed it to others as gospel.

That can sure happen too.

Nobody has a monopoly on data, however.  If people believe there should be different data picked and chosen, they're certainly free to do that and enter it into the discussion, hopefully indicating why they've chosen that data versus whatever else was presented.