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5 unusual facts about Similarity score


Nearest neighbor search

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.

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.

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

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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