meaningless thought: if u measure performance using three stats (for hockey: offense, defense, special teams ig???). you could encode that as an rgb value. oh yeah that player's going through a huge offensivenslump from #a0376f to #843c75

Thread🧵: I've built a tool for shot tagging in hockey. It is very much inspired by @nguyenank.bsky.social's shot-plotter. I built a floorball version mostly for personal use, but figured a hockey version would be interesting to other people as well. sports-tagging.netlify.app/hockey/

Here's a cool write-up that uses a slightly different method to fit a model I experimented with back in 2022, but goes into much more detail.

you ever have a really stupid idea and then a week later you've written 6,000 words and created a whole blog: anoddandanend.com/posts/2025/m... it features #magicthegathering, linguistics, and questionable applications of statistical methods. all entirely on brand for me

you ever have a really stupid idea and then a week later you've written 6,000 words and created a whole blog: anoddandanend.com/posts/2025/m... it features #magicthegathering, linguistics, and questionable applications of statistical methods. all entirely on brand for me

i just realized the Go-Shintai creatures in #magicthegathering don't have creature types? They all have subtype Shrine, but that's an enchantment type, not a creature type. (Also, I'm working on writing something (very unusual) Very silly (very on par for me), can you tell.)

hi i am Not back on social media but i tell people enough that something shared and bad >>>> perfect and never done/public, so! score-charts-only.netlify.app this was assembled from scraps over ~10 hours across the past 2 days, and is kinda a disaster on every axis, but! it is out in the world now

hi i am Not back on social media but i tell people enough that something shared and bad >>>> perfect and never done/public, so! score-charts-only.netlify.app this was assembled from scraps over ~10 hours across the past 2 days, and is kinda a disaster on every axis, but! it is out in the world now

and we're back at it at #ASIS2025 ! new day, new thread. in an auditorium this time, starting up with a presentation from some houston dynamo folks

go to phil for actual intelligent stuff from the conference

i bring So little of value to the American Soccer Insights Summit but i can bring that unhelpfulness to live-posting, so why not! i have also not seen a hashtag so i feel entitled to make up my own #ASIS2025

A shot-plotter.netlify.app update? Just a month after the last one? Unlikely, but its happened somehow! This one features some big bug fixes + the addition of nets for men's and women's lacrosse (they might be my magnum opera of playing areas; I maybe figured out one-point perspective for them).

i Think i did this right??

reaching new depths not thought possible for the sake of shot-plotter (trying to parse this tutorial on distance + 1 point perspective)

found my the cc copy of warbreaker on my phone i downloaded ages ago and devoured it on a plane ride and wow reading kinda rocks sometimes huh

update: it was a bit of (a), a bit of (c). thanks for playing everyone

going to stab something. an issue with shot-plotter got reported where dots were appearing in the table but not on the rink, but would appear on refresh or minutes later. i saw this last month, but only with ghosts dots sporadically, but can get it to repro somewhat consistently on my phone now

for reference, this is what i have of my initial #playplotter experiments, plus some tweaks. it was suggested to me as akin to a digital whiteboard geared towards coaches, i privately think of it as sports-flavored powerpoint, its is probably actually best described as sports-flavored photoshop/gimp

things: - back into pokemon go, and its encouraging me to take walks - finished the first version of my #mtgcube. letting the list simmer, but i'm happy to have something to work with - increasingly thinking about restarting work on play-plotter, an idea i tinkered w/ for a few hours over a year ago

i have turned into the Games Organizer of my friend group, and i'm not mad about it. almost certainly bc my friends are lovely and will handle a lot of scheduling for these games if i ask them to, but also hanging out w/ them more often, including virtually, is lovely and makes me happier, who knew

i'm not super active atm b/c. i don't feel like it. but! i have a bunch of new followers so i wanted to (a) say hi! (b) direct u to my proper intro of actual projects (c) say i'll be at the American Soccer Insights Summit at the end of the month and if u are too u should tell me so we can meet

I have a new blog post out! taking a break from the super technical side of things, I wrote about developing my long-distance running habit! johnbedwards.io/blog/maratho...

woke up much earlier than normal (i credit jet lag) with a slight idea and reminded myself that i do actually genuinely enjoy coding, and making stuff tailored specifically for you w/o concern for others can be a delight

i did it round of applause for myself

Happy New Years! I've spend some time during the Christmas break to work on a simple Big Data Cup project. The data has been anonymized, but you can select a Team, a specific Puck position (image 2) and/or a specific player (image 3). Link to the tool here: hockey-statistics.com/statistics/

john is wonderful and articulate and y'all should put him to work writing stuff on topics y'all are interested in

Hey y'all its a shot-plotter.netlify.app update! This one features the addition of: - football/soccer net (IFAB/NCAA) - indoor lacrosse (NLL, customizable) and: - ice hockey (IIHF) is now customizable All additions were suggestions from people, so let me know if you have thoughts of things to add!

Hey folks, who's ready for a good old Casey Explosion steam sale recommendation thread? I'm gonna be adding to this thread over the festive season, and hopefully highlight a few gems for you to pick up for yourself or loved ones this Chrimbly edition. Are you ready?

The best thing you can do for an author is to request their book from your library. The library will usually get it for you! The author will get an immediate sale, and libraries will know there is a demand for their future books! Just google your library name plus "book request" or walk in and ask

A lot of the work I do wouldn’t be possible without An’s work on shot-plotter. From bespoke xG models to behavioural/action coding in some of our ongoing research, I use it almost daily.

Hey y'all its a shot-plotter.netlify.app update! This one features the addition of: - football/soccer net (IFAB/NCAA) - indoor lacrosse (NLL, customizable) and: - ice hockey (IIHF) is now customizable All additions were suggestions from people, so let me know if you have thoughts of things to add!

once again did middling at the Annual Aunt Sponsored Family Gambling. however all the youngest cousins first-picked and got the highest values, so: rigged

this is y'all's heads up that someone messaged me about adding to shot-plotter.netlify.app so i am V likely to do a playing area update soon (prob before the week is up) and i like to do them in bulk so if u have a new sport/old sport new org u want repped this is an Excellent time to let me know!!!

the escalators in zeiss give me big coconut mall energy, in that they are parallel up + down escalators and i choose the wrong one every time but just power through anyways #trailsinthesky

i wish it was clearer sometimes what items were because i just got "hellfire eggs" out of a chest and scrolled through my inventory for a full minute (its a food, which like, i Could've guessed but did not) #trailsinthesky

i have arrived at elmo village and suddenly remembered oh yeah, there is a hot spring episode in this chapter #trailsinthesky

given there, to my memory, hasn't been an orbment charging station since chapter 1, seeing one randomly in kaldia tunnel feels ... indicative of something! #trailsinthesky

i remembered so little about olivier besides his existence, but i remember air-letten So clearly for some reason, even though i must've only seen it on one of my two past aborted playthroughs. i stand by my subconscious b/c it Is gorgeous though #trailsinthesky

okay i Very Crucially both stepped away and ate and am now happier with the state of this viz; please give thoughts and also suggestions for other players you would like to see (from last PWHL season) so i can see more examples and figure out other things i want to change

i Think the answer is no don't flip it, but it still feels wrong somehow. proof of attempting workings:

please help i have tried to figure out if i'm supposed to flip the shot angle from the shooter perspective and even after drawing it out i think I'm Still wrong

put this together. it has a flagrant disrespect of basic statistical principles, including an Incredibly Bad xG model b/c i don't know what I'm doing. but if i can figure out how to explain stuff (and then have someone tell me what's wrong w/ the stuff), there might be a kernel of something here?

is combining @bryanbastin.bsky.social 's goalie angle fan viz w/ @hockeyviz.com's pen nib viz (the xg vs goal game recap one) w/ an xg model that probably literallly only uses distance the worst idea i've ever had, yes or yes

managed to get this just about working (cc @bryanbastin.bsky.social) and have some immediate thoughts about things to tinker with viz-wise (don't pay too much attention to the actual graph contents w/ how few shots have been faced)

okay but when Did the pwhl start having shot locations b/c did i completely miss this at some point

Excellent news everyone my really scuffed pwhl goals scraper still works

digging up my pwhl scraper b/c i want score growth charts pls wish me luck

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