Rugby managers under the microscope
- trywizard data science project to use it as a way of validating the stochadex analysis package is fit for purpose.
- update article about trywizard with this!
- Goal: Build some decision-making software that helps rugby managers make player substitutions at the best time in the match.
- Project todos:
- Manually pull together events/players/team features csvs for each season and use these in the app
- Write functions to extract these key features from the data:
- Carefully smoothed average event rates, grouped by position and time spent on the field (fatigue context), as a function of time for all matches
- Individual team event rate adjustments to this average, grouped by season (tactics/coaching context)
- Individual player event rate adjustments, grouped by season (player development/tactical alignment context) to the team-adjusted average