This is fun - is the data granular enough to differentiate flagrant vs common fouls? Or when a player gets thrown out? Speaking anecdotally, I know our local head ref threw out the first person at a home game this year.. Wondering what that looks like league-wide. Thanks for making this!
The only way that the data is granular enough to differentiate flagrant fouls is if there are two fouls submitted one immediately after another in the data (to equal 20 yards instead of 10). If this is the case, we might be able to assume it is flagrant. The problem with assuming, though, is that there are also times where two fouls occur immediately back-to-back and there would be no difference (as far as I can tell) between how those look in the data. For example, defensive marking foul is called on a double team, disc is moved up 10 yards, and once the disc is in play again, the player with the disc is fouled again before throwing and moved up another 10 yards. Obviously this isn't a flagrant foul, but would show up the same.
In terms of ejections and player misconduct fouls, the database that the AUDL keeps allows for recording these explicitly, but there haven't been any recorded events of these kinds in the past two seasons. I know, like you're saying, that these have happened, but unfortunately the stat recorders didn't mark them at the time, so they didn't make it into the data base.
This is fun - is the data granular enough to differentiate flagrant vs common fouls? Or when a player gets thrown out? Speaking anecdotally, I know our local head ref threw out the first person at a home game this year.. Wondering what that looks like league-wide. Thanks for making this!
Good questions.
The only way that the data is granular enough to differentiate flagrant fouls is if there are two fouls submitted one immediately after another in the data (to equal 20 yards instead of 10). If this is the case, we might be able to assume it is flagrant. The problem with assuming, though, is that there are also times where two fouls occur immediately back-to-back and there would be no difference (as far as I can tell) between how those look in the data. For example, defensive marking foul is called on a double team, disc is moved up 10 yards, and once the disc is in play again, the player with the disc is fouled again before throwing and moved up another 10 yards. Obviously this isn't a flagrant foul, but would show up the same.
In terms of ejections and player misconduct fouls, the database that the AUDL keeps allows for recording these explicitly, but there haven't been any recorded events of these kinds in the past two seasons. I know, like you're saying, that these have happened, but unfortunately the stat recorders didn't mark them at the time, so they didn't make it into the data base.
Hope that helps clarify!