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Month: June 2014

On “Penalties under pressure”

This tweet has been making the rounds: Still one of the most remarkable sports statistics I've ever seen. http://t.co/QywmmV1jGO pic.twitter.com/Mh2WVyg4Bm … More

Nate Silver’s successful World Cup predictions: luck or skill?

Over on Stats Bomb, Seth Burn has taken FiveThirtyEight’s World Cup predictions, and, using what’s called the Kelly formula, placed wagers on each … More

538, predictions, World Cup

The defense will not rest…

This blog will be mostly quiet for the next month or so. My dissertation defense, titled “Causal inference for multiple … More

Brown, causal inference

World Cup ages

So, the Guardian posted an interesting article with some graphs from the 2014 World Cup. Even better, linked at the bottom … More

ages, boxplots, World Cup

Talent acquisition and the post-steroid era

As of yesterday, Buster Posey, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Ryan Howard were each ranked between 90th and 100th in OPS among … More

bad contracts, MLB, parity, salary

The strike zone is a unicorn

As part of SNY’s pre-game show, former MLB pitcher and current Mets analyst Bobby Ojeda answers tweets using #HeyBobbyO. Tuesday, … More

baseball, MLB, umpires, unicorns.

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