Offseason Training

What’s been happening lately at GRAFT? Of course, I’ve set up the A-League site, and have been incrementally adding new things. Most recently putting together a SVG graph with the weekly fluctuations in the Elo ratings. As well, I’ve made a some steps towards a decent prediction model. As you’d imagine “football” modelling is very […]

Summer Diversions

In past years, I probably would’ve moved my focus to other things not related to sport, such as cursing the sun god that gets angrier and angrier every year, but for some reason I’ve decided to broaden the GRAFT umbrella beyond the AFL into other sports, the A-League to begin with. I don’t just do […]

Changing of the Guard

So, that’s the winter sports all wrapped up for the year – at least in theory. We saw Richmond triumphant in a game that saw them break down Adelaide’s vaunted attack while keeping up their own end. In particular, Dustin Martin had a fine game to sweep the treble of the Norm Smith, although like […]

2017 Grand Final Preview and beyond

According to the main GRAFT ratings, we have Richmond rated as 3 points better than Adelaide, but that is based on a home ground advantage since Richmond are playing at their home ground against the interstate team. If you otherwise consider grand finals to be neutral in general, then you would remove the standard 12 […]