A few years ago I added some code to apply “punt sadness score” and search for bad ones. I never really followed up because the play-by-play data was pretty polluted. Doing the API v2 cleanup reminded me of it so let’s see what running it against 2024 comes up with. Disclaimer up front: This idea… Continue reading The worst punt of 2024
Month: March 2025
David Stern part 9: The Cap
Why the salary cap matters then and now I finally got around to a detailed read of this fantastic book: The Cap, How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA by Joshua Mendelsohn. There are many interesting parts for our understanding of David Stern and his legacy. The author is a labor lawyer… Continue reading David Stern part 9: The Cap
2025 preview: We’re not dead yet
The 2025 schedules are fully loaded into CFB data so let’s run it. $ python3 ./mcc_schedule.py -vCalifornia at San Diego State on Sep 19, 2025San José State at Stanford on Sep 26, 2025San Diego State at Fresno State on Oct 24, 2025California at Stanford on Nov 21, 2025San José State at San Diego State on… Continue reading 2025 preview: We’re not dead yet
API v2
Our data provider of choice is collegefootballdata.com and they’ve been great. In the natural life stages of API developers everywhere they’ve introduced a V2 with breaking changes, final deployment coming real soon now. I’ve been there myself. After putting off any mods for a while I dusted off the codebase yesterday and got the fixes… Continue reading API v2