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Across Sports

Across Sports

All Across Sports articles from PlayerGem.

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The Gate Soccer Kept Failing That Baseball Never Reached

A single availability gate worked cleanly in baseball for three seasons before soccer exposed a structural flaw the s...

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The Corpus Entry That Survived Every Gate and Lied

PlayerGem traces how one player record cleared every methodological gate, held a clean sample, and still produced rat...

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When Instinct Held and the Corpus Caught Up

PlayerGem traces a stretch when a colleague's instinct outpaced the corpus across two sports — and what that gap reve...

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Rotation, Rest, and the Limits of Prior Performance

PlayerGem's cross-sport analysis of how rotation and rest patterns break prior-performance models differently in bask...

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Individual Sports Break Our Method

PlayerGem traces how its player-rating method transfers from team sports to individual ones — and exactly where the c...

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A Sport We Gave Up On, and Why

We covered a sixth sport for two seasons, then stopped. Not because we were inaccurate — because we could not grade it cleanly.

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The Method Transferred, the Thresholds Did Not

Adding a second sport was supposed to be a configuration change. It broke in a way that told us which parts of our method were actually general.

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The Same Model Failing in Two Directions

PlayerGem's cross-sport rating model produced opposite calibration errors in basketball and hockey — and the same shrinkage rule caused both.

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What Baseball Taught Us About Our Hockey Gates

PlayerGem rebuilt its hockey candidate gates using a baseball availability model — and found out, slowly, what the two sports do not share.

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What Each Sport Punishes You For

The same method applied to five sports fails in five different ways. Each sport has a specific weakness it exploits, and none of them are the obvious one.

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