Channing Griffin

I found success from a hopeless place and now I'm sharing my journey.

📍 San Francisco, CA

Football Analytics with Python & R - Chapter 5

In Chapter 5, we're evaluating quarterback accuracy. The plot below shows the completion percentage of all passes (y-axis) and the air yards (x-axis) from 2016 - 2023. We can see that there is a relation between the likelihood of a pass being completed based on how many yards

2024 Big Data Bowl

In October 2023, the NFL announced the sixth annual Big Data Bowl would commence and be focused on tackling. For those unfamiliar, the Big Data Bowl is a contest that anyone can participate in but contestants usually have a background in Data Analysis, Mathematics, Data Science, or Machine Learning. Leveraging

Summer Reading - August 2023

As the summer lull in sports winds down with NCAA football kicking off today and NFL Week 1 right around the corner there's certainly a buzz in the air. I'm looking forward to the start of the upcoming football season but during the offseason I'

NFL Combine Table

I was playing around with different table packages in R like reactable and put together a little something that displays some basic NFL combine metrics from Wide Receivers over the past two drafts. This isn't even the nicest looking table but I'm having fun tinkering with

Basic Bar Chart in R

Getting started with my project I've decided to use R because of my familiarity with the language albeit, I still consider myself a beginner. In my experience, learning how to play around with the data has really helped me get comfortable with R. My most commonly used functions

Day 1 with nflfastR

Sports have been a huge part of my life since pretty much forever. I collected sports cards as a kid and played just about every major sport competitively through high school. There's almost nothing that I love more than sports and it has always been a dream of