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1.
2. NUMBER
SENSEHOW TO USE BIG DATA
TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
K AISER FUNG
New York Chicago San Francisco Athens London Madrid Mexico City
Milan New Delhi Singapore Sydney Toronto
3. Contents
Acknowledgments vii
List of Figures ix
Prologue 1
PART 1 SOCIAL DATA 17
1 Why Do Law School Deans
Send Each Other Junk Mail? 19
2 Can a New Statistic Make Us
Less Fat? 54
PART 2 MARKETING DATA 75
3 How Can Sellouts
Ruin a Business? 77
4 Will Personalizing Deals
Save Groupon? 95
5 Why Do Marketers
Send You Mixed Messages? 112
4. vi CONTENTS
PART 3 ECONOMIC DATA 127
6 Are They New Jobs
If No One Can Apply? 129
7 How Much Did You Pay
for the Eggs? 153
PART 4 SPORTING DATA 173
8 Are You a Better Coach
or Manager? 175
EPILOGUE 201
References 211
Index 219
6. SPORTING DATA 183
3. A First Look at Coaching
Search for “Coach’s Rating” on ESPN.com, and you will be
served a weekly poll asking users to voice their approval or
disapproval of each NFL head coach. In the FFL community,
this style of rating, based on opinion rather than facts, makes
few friends. Jay, Leonard, and many others spare no effort in
their research, covering podcasts, TV shows, real-time chats,
webcasts, Twitter feeds, Facebook messages, and so on. Also
consulted are numerous websites catering to FFL players,
such as ESPN, Yahoo!, Rotoworld.com, and FFtoday.com,
which carry news, statistics, commentary, and projections.
With so much data so easily accessed, why judge subjectively?
Fantasy fans banter about the numbers in the peanut gallery,
or at the negotiating table.
Entering the final week of the 2011 season, Perry and
Jean co-owned the worst record in the league, 3 wins and 9
losses; both were aware that soon there would only be one
team standing—eh, stranded—at the bottom. Jean tinkered
with his lineup: For the two WRs, he had been rotating be-
tween Eric Decker, Julio Jones, and Early Doucet, and he
chose Decker and Doucet; for defense, he selected the New
England Patriots who would be facing the doormat India-
napolis Colts at home, instead of the New York Jets, a unit he
favored in the first half of the season. As usual, Jean started
two QBs, one of whom was Matt Hasselbeck, a 36-year-old
7. 184 NUMBERSENSE
veteran whose mediocre performance in 2011 unnerved Se-
attle Seahawks fans; the other QB was Carson Palmer.
By contrast, Perry activated the identical squad he had
used in the previous three weeks; since he had lost three
straight, this decision reflected either a white flag or a deep
conviction. In the end, inaction brought victory. What doomed
Jean was his unconditional trust in Hasselbeck. Needing only
eight extra points to defeat Perry, if he had activated Jonathan
Stewart as a second running back in place of the off-form Se-
attle QB, he would have won the last round with two points to
spare; as it so happened Perry maxed out his points. Stewart
is a competent back who scares fantasy coaches because he
competes for playing time with several potent running threats
on the Carolina Panthers and so his fantasy value is tied to the
team’s tactics, which vary from week to week. Jean gambled
on Stewart during Week 11 and it paid off; he could have, and
should have taken the same bet in Week 13.
The big idea is looking at what could have been in order
to evaluate what was. Jean lost in Week 13 because he was
outcoached. Perry played his best hand (74 points), but Jean
could have scored 10 more points with just one swap—in fact,
his maximum potential points were 86. (See Figure 8-2.)
In one sense, a good coach is able to pick out the nine
players who would obtain the most fantasy points from the
roster assembled by the manager. We can evaluate any se-
lected squad by comparing it to the optimal squad. The points
total relative to the attainable maximum for a given roster is
what we call Coach’s Rating. In Week 13, Jean was rated 78
percent, indicating his points total reached 78 percent of the
potential; Perry scored a perfect 100, as he could not have
done any better.
4. Another Look at Coaching
Tony, one of the founders of the Tiffany Victoria Memorial
FFL, scored 71 points in Week 3 and 104 points in Week 4.
8. SPORTING DATA 185
His Coach’s Ratings were in the 70s for both weeks, making
them two of his least effective selections in 2011. This metric
implies that the coach performed equally well in either week
but in fact, Tony activated a truly wretched squad in Week 3.
How do I know? Based on the 14 players he owned, I com-
puted every one of the 256 squads Tony could have fielded in
Week 3: The points totals fell into a tight range between 54
and 99, with the 71-point squad ahead of only 29 percent of
the possibilities. Statistically speaking, 71 points was at the
29th percentile. For comparison, in Week 4, Tony’s lineup
ranked at the 66th percentile, between the worst squad at 59
points and the best at 133.
I call this rating the Coach’s “Prafs” (Percentile rank
among feasible squads). The Coach’s Rating is a serviceable
first approximation, and it’s easier to obtain than the Coach’s
FIGURE 8-2 Jean’s Selected Squad, a Modified Squad, and the
Optimal Squad for Week 13 in the Tiffany Victoria Memorial
Fantasy Football League, 2011–2012: Boxed selections could
have improved the points total.
PosiƟon Selected Squad Modified Squad OpƟmal Squad
QuarterBack Carson Palmer -- same -- -- same --
Running Back Arian Foster -- same -- -- same --
Wide Receiver 1 Eric Decker -- same -- -- same --
Wide Receiver 2 Early Doucet -- same -- Julio Jones
Tight End Ed Dickson -- same -- -- same --
Offense Wild Card MaƩ Hasselbeck Jonathan Stewart Jonathan Stewart
Defense / Special
Teams
Patriots D/ST -- same -- Jets D/ST
Kicker Jason Hanson -- same -- -- same --
Head Coach Packers Coach -- same -- -- same --
Fantasy
Points
67 77 86
9. 186 NUMBERSENSE
Prafs, as it considers only the optimal squad. The Coach’s
Prafs looks at every possible squad, and is thus more telling,
but it requires manipulating much more data.
Since I’ll refer to the Coach’s Prafs throughout the chap-
ter, it helps to define the metric officially:
Prafs is the percentile rank of the activated squad when
compared to the range of points of all possible squads
that can be constructed with the available roster. Its
value is an integer between 0 and 100.
The coach who chooses the worst possible squad gets
nada while the one who selects the optimal squad gets the
maximum Coach’s Prafs of 100. In the Tiffany Victoria Me-
morial FFL, the average weekly Coach’s Prafs was 87 in 2011.
FIGURE 8-3 Coach’s Prafs and Ranking in the Tiffany Victoria
Memorial Fantasy Football League, 2011–2012: Cumulative
Prafs takes values between 0 and 1,300. Five teams (inside the
box) were bunched together when rated by coaching.
Total
Rank by
Points
Total
1380 1 Corey
1297 2 Leonard
1297 3 Jay
1257 4 Harold
1251 5 Bryan
1244 6 Chris
1158 7 Tony
1148 8 Timothy
1116 9 Jean
1114 10 Joe
1112 11 Jeremy
1073 12 Jarrod
1063 13 Stanley
988 14 Perry
Coach’s
Prafs
Rank by
Prafs
Leonard 1214 1
Corey 1208 2
Bryan 1200 3
Chris 1182 4
Jarrod 1157 5
Joe 1157 6
Perry 1148 7
Stanley 1145 8
Jay 1141 9
Timothy 1120 10
Jean 1086 11
Tony 1064 12
Jeremy 1018 13
Harold 984 14
10. SPORTING DATA 187
Thus, the league-average coach picked a squad that beat 87
percent of feasible squads. That was quite a competitive
league! Jay and I trust this data-driven rating much more
than ESPN’s approval rating.
According to the cumulative Coach’s Prafs, computed as
the sum of weekly Coach’s Prafs, the league’s top coaches in
2011 were Leonard, Corey, Bryan, and Chris while Harold did
rather worse than most. Jay ranked ninth in coaching skill,
but a mere 16 points separated him from the fifth-ranked
Jarrod, as the cumulative Coach’s Prafs of five teams bunched
up at around 1,150.
While defining the Coach’s Prafs, I sneaked in a very im-
portant conditional: The roster decisions are taken out of the
coach’s hands. Like the restaurant critic Bruni, I zoomed in
on how well the chef handled preset ingredients. It’s as if
playing hosts of the popular foodie show Chopped, in which
contestants are challenged with concocting meals out of in-
congruous produce revealed only at game time. In a recent
show, the kitchens gamely cooked up main courses using pea-
nut butter, pork tenderloin, okra, and canned shrimp. Fixing
the ingredients allows us to separate the effect of coaching/
cooking from that of managing/shopping. We next turn our
attention to managerial acumen.