How do people use nflgame?
nflgame opens up a world of possibilities with the robust football data it provides.
Here are just some of the ways that the community of users have used nflgame over the years.
- Correlating how players that did well in preseason performed during the regular season (@iliketowel)
- Determining how Quarterbacks perform when their 'favorite' receiver is on the field vs. off the field (@iliketowel)
- Determining a player's average fantasy football points scored and standard deviation to find consistent players - example shown here (@front9tech)
- Determining the top fantasy football players during Week 1 from the 2009 thru 2013 seasons - example shown here (@front9tech)
- Determining the top fantasy football rookies from the 2009 thru 2013 seasons to assist in identifying when to draft rookies during the upcoming fantasy football draft - example shown here (@front9tech)
- As a source of data for a Markov chain analysis tool (https://github.com/bdilday/nflMarkov) (@bdilday).
- Realtime fantasy football league scoring and analysis (http://blackandbrew.net/) (@ochawkeye)
- (2014/09/30) I've started building out some Tableau stuff. There are 10 pages of varying info, but the link here is to QB data by Air Yards. You can click on any QB to see their info (https://public.tableausoftware.com/profile/erbieber7480#!/vizhome/QBStuff_test/ofTeamTouchesYardsByWeek) - @iliketowel
- Box Forecaster (@krusta80)
- Display scores and schedules on a BBS (bulletin board system). Sports Stats by @kirkman
- Create realtime or ex post facto fantasy team scoring charts, like so:
- View histograms of a player's yards per play, spread over the course of a season. Useful for breaking down a running back's yards per carry (YPC) stat, to see the distribution of his touches. (ypc-graph by @calvinhu)