{
  "id": 74892,
  "title": "Reliability of \"dir\" and \"o\" data",
  "url": "/competitions/NFL-Punt-Analytics-Competition/discussion/74892",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-12-17T05:43:43.002815400Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 3,
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  "content": "<p>Are the \"dir\" and \"o\" data trustworthy. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. I took a snapshot of the video of a recent play: game 618 and play 2792.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http://oi65.tinypic.com/2vvp5lf.jpg\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n\n<p>I drew the players and the drew the lines for dir and o. It just looks like noise to me though.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http://oi66.tinypic.com/3179zpu.jpg\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n\n<p>Anyone have better findings?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "440138",
      "postDate": "12/17/2018 05:43:43",
      "content": "<p>Are the \"dir\" and \"o\" data trustworthy. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. I took a snapshot of the video of a recent play: game 618 and play 2792.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http://oi65.tinypic.com/2vvp5lf.jpg\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n\n<p>I drew the players and the drew the lines for dir and o. It just looks like noise to me though.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http://oi66.tinypic.com/3179zpu.jpg\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n\n<p>Anyone have better findings?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Are the \"dir\" and \"o\" data trustworthy. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. I took a snapshot of the video of a recent play: game 618 and play 2792.\n\n![enter image description here][2]\n\nI drew the players and the drew the lines for dir and o. It just looks like noise to me though.\n\n![enter image description here][1]\n\nAnyone have better findings?\n\n  [1]: http://oi66.tinypic.com/3179zpu.jpg\n  [2]: http://oi65.tinypic.com/2vvp5lf.jpg",
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    {
      "id": "443547",
      "postDate": "12/21/2018 20:53:31",
      "content": "<p>Hey Jacques. I know you posted this a while ago so you may have already figured this out. I was doing something similar and has this problem. When plotting the angles are you converting from degrees to radians? I did something like this <code>play['dir_theta'] = play['dir'] * np.pi / 180</code></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hey Jacques. I know you posted this a while ago so you may have already figured this out. I was doing something similar and has this problem. When plotting the angles are you converting from degrees to radians? I did something like this `play['dir_theta'] = play['dir'] * np.pi / 180`",
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    {
      "id": "443690",
      "postDate": "12/22/2018 06:45:08",
      "content": "<p>Yea I am converting to radians. I made a simple, reproducible notebook if you want to check my work though. FWIW, I haven't figured anything more about these features. I'm just ignoring them :)</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/jwkvam/plotting-o-and-dir?scriptVersionId=8732753\">https://www.kaggle.com/jwkvam/plotting-o-and-dir?scriptVersionId=8732753</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yea I am converting to radians. I made a simple, reproducible notebook if you want to check my work though. FWIW, I haven't figured anything more about these features. I'm just ignoring them :)\n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/jwkvam/plotting-o-and-dir?scriptVersionId=8732753",
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    {
      "id": "445067",
      "postDate": "12/25/2018 14:39:17",
      "content": "<p>I came across the same situation here. 'dir' data seems okay, but 'o' data looks completely random to me. Can you tell me how to solved this issue? BTW the link you posted is not working:(</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I came across the same situation here. 'dir' data seems okay, but 'o' data looks completely random to me. Can you tell me how to solved this issue? BTW the link you posted is not working:(",
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      "id": 443547,
      "author_name": "robikscube",
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      "post_date": "12/21/2018 20:53:31",
      "content": "<p>Hey Jacques. I know you posted this a while ago so you may have already figured this out. I was doing something similar and has this problem. When plotting the angles are you converting from degrees to radians? I did something like this <code>play['dir_theta'] = play['dir'] * np.pi / 180</code></p>",
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    {
      "id": 443690,
      "author_name": "jwkvam",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/22/2018 06:45:08",
      "content": "<p>Yea I am converting to radians. I made a simple, reproducible notebook if you want to check my work though. FWIW, I haven't figured anything more about these features. I'm just ignoring them :)</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/jwkvam/plotting-o-and-dir?scriptVersionId=8732753\">https://www.kaggle.com/jwkvam/plotting-o-and-dir?scriptVersionId=8732753</a></p>",
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    {
      "id": 445067,
      "author_name": "kylajung",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/25/2018 14:39:17",
      "content": "<p>I came across the same situation here. 'dir' data seems okay, but 'o' data looks completely random to me. Can you tell me how to solved this issue? BTW the link you posted is not working:(</p>",
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    "440138": "Are the \"dir\" and \"o\" data trustworthy. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. I took a snapshot of the video of a recent play: game 618 and play 2792.\n\n![enter image description here][2]\n\nI drew the players and the drew the lines for dir and o. It just looks like noise to me though.\n\n![enter image description here][1]\n\nAnyone have better findings?\n\n  [1]: http://oi66.tinypic.com/3179zpu.jpg\n  [2]: http://oi65.tinypic.com/2vvp5lf.jpg",
    "443547": "Hey Jacques. I know you posted this a while ago so you may have already figured this out. I was doing something similar and has this problem. When plotting the angles are you converting from degrees to radians? I did something like this `play['dir_theta'] = play['dir'] * np.pi / 180`",
    "443690": "Yea I am converting to radians. I made a simple, reproducible notebook if you want to check my work though. FWIW, I haven't figured anything more about these features. I'm just ignoring them :)\n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/jwkvam/plotting-o-and-dir?scriptVersionId=8732753",
    "445067": "I came across the same situation here. 'dir' data seems okay, but 'o' data looks completely random to me. Can you tell me how to solved this issue? BTW the link you posted is not working:("
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