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Innovation Session: The History of NFL Win Percentages – Part 2
I’m going to pick up where I left off two weeks ago working on my chart of NFL team win percentages over time. Last week I focused on getting the infrastructure setup, which was much easier than I...
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Innovation Session: The History of NFL Win Percentages – Part 3
Picking up where I last left off, today I’m going to try to make progress on my NFL history chart. Specifically, I would like to implement a javascript function that parses the data and splits it by...
View ArticleInnovation Session: The History of NFL Win Percentages – Part 4
Continuing what I’ve been working on lately – tonight I’m going to try and get all of the data loaded for my NFL chart and hopefully get the javascript to automatically loop through and chart each...
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Innovation Session: The History of NFL Win Percentages – Part 5
Tonight I changed my approach, at the advice of Sean Conaty, and decided to turn the CSVs into JSON using a separate python script that I would then load into D3 to visualize. I am much better at...
View ArticleInnovation Session: The History of NFL Win Percentages – Part 6
There is a time to struggle and a time to ask for help. D3 has gotten the best of me. I’m sure it is something simple, but I don’t have my bearings in the language enough to figure out what the problem...
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Innovation Session: My Fantasy Football Auction Draft
This is my second year playing fantasy football and first year doing an auction draft. Being new to the format, I figured this was a perfect chance to study up and walk away with a dominant team. Here...
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Innovation Session: The History of NFL Win Percentages – Part 7
As a hobbyist developer, I have always been grateful for help from others. Whether from friends, co-workers or strangers. A few weeks ago Mike Bostock helped me figure out why my chart wasn’t rendering...
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Innovation Session: My Fantasy Football Auction Draft – Retrospective
Last August, before fantasy football season started, I came up with a strategy to approach the auction draft my work league was having. My season is now over, I didn’t make the playoffs, so I want to...
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Innovation Session: My Fantasy Football Auction Draft – Retrospective Part 2
Back in December I took a look at my football season to see how my fantasy football strategy performed. I had a few other thoughts that I’ll share now. The Importance of the Draft Below are the...
View ArticleTeam Loyalty In Sports
Despite never being much of a sports fan as a child, as a young adult I became a huge fan of the NFL, particularly of The Atlanta Falcons. Doing so later in life, and as someone with an over-analytical...
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