Posts Tagged ‘ New York Giants ’
Continuing with the newly available football data and inspired by a question from Drew Conway I decided to look at play selection based on down by the Giants for the past 10 years. Visually, we see that until 2011 the Giants preferred to run on first and second down. Third down is usually a do-or-die down so [ READ MORE ]
With the recent availability of play-by-play NFL data I got to analyzing my favorite team, the New York Giants with some very hasty EDA. From the above graph you can see that on 1st down Eli preferred to throw to Hakim Nicks and on 2nd and 3rd downs he slightly favored Victor Cruz. The code for [ READ MORE ]
Shortly after the Giants fantastic defeat of the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI (I was a little disappointed that Eli, Coughlin and the Vince Lombardi Trophy all got off the parade route early and the views of City Hall were obstructed by construction trailers, but Steve Weatherford was awesome as always) a friend asked me [ READ MORE ]
With the Super Bowl only hours away now is your last chance to buy your boxes. Assuming the last digits are not assigned randomly you can maximize your chances with a little analysis. While I’ve seen plenty of sites giving the raw numbers, I thought a little visualization was in order. In the graph above [ READ MORE ]