Three NHL Game 7’s are scheduled for tonight, so I figured I’d run some Game 7 numbers. For this analysis, … More
Month: April 2014
Momentum and hockey
Momentum does not exist! Yes it does! No it doesn’t! Yes it does! Actually, it both exists and doesn’t exist simultaneously! … More
So we entered a Kaggle contest…
The website Kaggle sponsored a March Machine Learning Mania contest over the last few months, which involved picking probabilities for every hypothetical … More
Revisiting 2013-14 NBA projections
At the beginning of the year, we looked at how different projection systems viewed the 2013-14 NBA season. To recap, … More
What were the odds that you picked this years bracket perfectly?
Two weeks ago, I explained how most of the numbers floating around regarding the “perfect bracket” were missing several key … More
The MOOC revolution
As online courses increase in enrollment and opportunity, Johns Hopkins’ Brian Caffo came to Brown on Monday, 4/7, to give a … More
Common sense & statistics, using NFL and NBA arrest rates
In his bi-annual mailbag, ESPN’s Bill Simmons takes a sarcastic tone to the NFL, advocating that the NBA should exploit … More
