It's been a while...
TLDR check out shownspace.com
For those of you who subscribed thinking I’d be more consistent in my analyses and writing, I’m sorry for the let down. I’m mostly disappointed in myself because the point of starting a Substack was to hold myself accountable and be consistent doing something I genuinely enjoy. Then, the classic (weak?) excuses became my own: I got a new job that took more time and sustaining the effort for all the intentions I had was much harder than I anticipated.
Of course, many unfinished drafts of analyses, projects, and models remain, but they were never complete enough to push out.
In the meantime, one of my good friends asked me on a whim if I’d be interested in writing a paper and submitting it to a sports analytics conference together. Despite our busy schedules, we made it happen (and, if we’re being honest, he made it happen). It was a whirlwind, but we quickly submitted an abstract to the who’s who in sports analytics conferences: the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Things only got more hectic as we were requested to submit a full manuscript (now it was time to actually do the project) and were subsequently selected as finalists and were given the opportunity to present at the conference a couple months ago.
Though one paragraph can’t do the process justice, but we ended up having a successful presentation (getting to present in front of some of my sports analytics idols — John Park and Brian Burke to name a couple — was a bit surreal) and receiving second place among all research papers.
That research finally spurred us to do what we’ve been wanting to for a while. We began working on an advanced stats website for ultimate frisbee analytics focused on the UFA by implementing the metrics and methods from the MIT SSAC paper.
There’s always more to say about it, but I’ll leave it at this: the website is still largely a work in progress, but it’s stable enough (I think) for anyone to explore for themselves at shownspace.com. A lot of time has gone into it, and, just like the conference presentation, would not be happening without Braden’s consistency and drive. Our ambition may very well outweigh what we have time to accomplish, but we’ll try our best anyways.
I hope to continue doing adhoc analyses and writing in the future, but, for now, developing the site takes basically all my [limited] additional free time.
For more details on the site itself and developments there, check out our new Substack also called Shown Space. The first post there details more about the new site.
Thanks for reading and following along years ago now, and hopefully I’ll be back soon.
— 밀혜성