About a year ago, I wrote a piece for Deadspin that linked anecdotal evidence with peer-reviewed literature on how referee behavior is … More
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On Thursday Night Football outcomes
The competitiveness of Thursday Night NFL football (TNF) contests has been discussed practically everywhere this past week. The Bleacher Report, Pro Football … More
It’s that time of year again! Play along with #PlayforOT
The National Hockey League is beginning its 98th season, and the 2014-2015 campaign marks the 10th consecutive season that the league will continue using … More
This might be the best thing I did in graduate school
I was looking for a few old Intro Stat activities today, and came across this gem. It’s a mathematical statistics … More
Stat pundit rankings: MLB 2014 over/under win totals
The 2014 Major League Baseball regular season is over, making it the perfect time to look back at how stat … More
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
Player tracking and snake oil: sports sessions at JSM 2014
Two of the most interesting sessions – at least as judged by twitter interest – at the 2014 Joint Statistical … More
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