While I didn’t grow up a huge hockey fan, one of the passions I’ve recently taken on deals with the … More
Author: statsbylopez
My take on the National Football League’s safety issue
The NFL sent out this memo to its fans this morning. It’s too much to take. Here, I dive in. The … More
Stat Pundit Rankings: MLB win over-unders
About two weeks ago, I used some familiar metrics to analyze how analytics-based websites performed as far as predicting MLB … More
MLB over-unders: Can anyone beat Las Vegas?
Back in March, several dozen websites, written by either professionals, bloggers, or, in some cases, professional bloggers, came out with … More
Stop it, Wall Street Journal. Just stop it.
So a big link making rounds this morning is this one, with the accompanying headline and tweet “Women earned 76.5c … More
Are they always this ugly? Results of Thursday night football games
Last Thursday’s NFL game between the Patriots and the Jets was hardly the marquee product the league wants to be … More
On Exercise, BMI, and the fascination with strict recommendations
Every Monday, Ph.D. students in the public health program at Brown gather to eat pizza, rearrange some unappetizing caesar salad … More
Make up calls and professional hockey
In the culmination of a project I worked on during my Masters program at UMass with current Southern New Hampshire … More
Jackie Robinson, by the numbers
Last night I watched “42”, the Jackie Robinson movie, for the first time. While I liked the flick, it comes … More
Takeaways from the 2013 Joint Statistical Meetings
While JSM 2013 officially wraps up Thursday, the difficult portion of my trip is over. Here are my takeaways from … More
