frankenstats Stories - Hound Dog LPGA
Big Three Stats Update
My longtime readers know that there are three statistics I like to look at to gauge a player's strengths and weaknesses. One of them is Greens In Regulation, a universally understood stat which can be easily found at LPGA.com. The other two are combination stats of my own design which fuse two...
Big Three Stats - 2010 Final
Now that the LPGA stat pages have finally settled down, I've plugged in the pertinent numbers to generate the Big Three (as I like to call it) for 2010. These three numbers - Total Driving, Greens In Regulation and Total Putting - are the best indicators I've found to describe the strengths and...
Big Three Stats Update
It's taken a while but now that we have completed 12 events (nine of them with the stats collected), it's time to give you the 2010 leaders in the three statistics that I feel best show each player's strengths and weaknesses. For the uninitiated, those statistics are Greens In Regulation, which...
Approach Factor - Revisited
A little over a year ago, I came up with the idea that the relationship between a player's ability to reach the Green In Regulation and her driving ability could be measured. I wanted to generate a number where a player would rate highly if she was either poor at driving and good in GIR, or if she...
Big Three Stats - July 2009
I promised Tatkins and The Constructivist that I would tally up the latest Total Driving and Total Putting numbers after the U.S. Open, so here they are along with the latest GIR - all in one handy-dandy spreadsheet! I'll list the Top 20 for those of you who get headaches from looking at too many...
Big Three Stats Update
Since GIR is not a stat of my creation, I couldn't accurately call this a Frankenstat Update. Here are the current top 20 players in Total Driving, GIR and Total Putting - the three area-specific numbers I like to reference the most when analyzing a player's performance. The complete listings of...
Frankenstat Update - April 2009
Sorry folks, no LPGA tournament action this week either. To fill in a small piece of this dead zone, I've tallied up the latest Total Driving and Total Putting numbers and have thrown in the GIR stats to give you the current Big Trio of Statistics picture. Keep in mind that the data sample size...
Total Putting Look-Back
I recently plugged in the numbers for Total Putting from 2006 and 2007 and thought I would share out my spreadsheet containing the last three seasons' data: Total Putting 2006-2008 spreadsheet Observations - A lot of TV commentators pointed out Seon Hwa Lee's great putting stroke during her...
Stat Relevance - Revisited
Just over a year ago, I ran a study in search of the statistics which are most helpful in identifying a good player. I took my final Top 30 player list for 2007 and charted where each finished in 13 categories. The results of that study can be found here. This year I took my season-ending Top 70...
Miyazato's Driving
The Constructivist wrote recently about Ai Miyazato's chances of rebounding in 2009. Part of his point was that Ai's injury in mid-2007 robbed her of her fine driving ability and that her Total Driving number from 2006 would have ranked fifth in 2008. I was curious to see where she and several...
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