The 2014 Major League Baseball regular season is over, making it the perfect time to look back at how stat … More
Month: September 2014
To Excel or not to Excel?
On the Statistics Education Section’s email listserv, there is an interesting debate going on regarding the software with which statistics … More
Analyzing the SuperContest
This fall, the Westgate Las Vegas Hotel Casino is hosting the prestigious SuperContest, in which entrants pony up $1500 to … More
538 is six months old…where does it stand?
Wednesday marks the six-month anniversary of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight launch with ESPN. As the site mixes statistics, sports, data visualization, … More
The B1G had a bad Saturday. How bad was it?
The conference formally known as the Big 10 seemingly had one of the worst weekends it could imagine, with most … More