the thing I ultimately really like about sports is the feeling of watching something electric happen and know that a bunch of other people are watching it too.
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.
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
Cat Manning
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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/
