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5 unusual facts about Similarity score


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Similarity scores for predicting career paths of professional athletes.

Similarity score

John Hollinger developed a similar system for basketball players in his Pro Basketball Forecast series of books, and several APBRmetricians have expanded on his methodology.

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Baseball Prospectus employs a projection system developed by Nate Silver known as PECOTA which applies nearest neighbor analysis to calculate similarities between players from different eras.

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Similarity scores are among the many original sabermetric concepts first introduced by Bill James.

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Pro Football Prospectus (written by Football Outsiders) has their own system (dubbed "KUBIAK" after longtime Broncos backup quarterback Gary Kubiak) for projecting future performance.



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