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Statistical OVRs, in an alternative to "No Ratings"

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A while ago, I made a statistical OVR stat (fairly straightforward regression from per36 or advanced stats to OVR). I think it may actually have a use: in an alternative...

nicidob

Just like how you can set the playoff format ([7,7,7,7]), it'll be pretty nice to set how many players are in each round. Like for a dunk contest with 8...

mamamia5x

Let me start by saying that the game clock doesn't show tenths of seconds so the engine could have considered the game over, making my suggestion potentially void. Let's assume...

grappleware

NBA-driven regressions for a bunch of constants. Using 2019 (auto?) and 2020 (alexnoob?) rosters. Aligned real players with ratings. Filter below 1500 minutes. Linear regression to the correct ratingsArray power...

nicidob

The script to generate the model is in https://github.com/nicidob/bbgm/blob/master/shooting_stats.ipynb I re-created this PR because there were some conflicts that I hopefully resolved. Plus there's a husky bug fix in here.

nicidob

Yeah so this replaces the linear fatigue energy relationship with a nonlinear one. Specifically, a sigmoid. This allows players to play at nearly their peak level, until the inevitable decline....

nicidob

just figured I'd place this PR here. not because it's done but for the record.

nicidob

Replacing Playing Time with an estimate

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I still believe the playing time mechanic is confusing to most new players. I think this is partially due to the fact that roster order also implicitly sets playing time....

nicidob

for football and hockey, use real life salary cap to balance team rating

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Similar to the idea hinted in the AV article, one could look at the "% of salary cap" distribution over positions as an estimate of how important each position is...

nicidob

Rookie scales customizable

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Pull request for issue #372. I created four new settings for the league: -Rookie scales: Rookie scales for the draft. The contract are capped by the max and min contract....

luso97