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…
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…
World Cup ages
So, the Guardian posted an interesting article with some graphs from the 2014 World Cup. Even better, linked at the bottom…
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…
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,…
What has happened to the AL East?
I don’t know, but its bad. Here’s a graph of the 2014 total run differentials, by division, compared to scaled…
Kagglers versus experts
Over on the Kaggle discussion board, Jeff made a few really interesting posts. In one, he compared how the approximately…
The next step
This news is about a month old, but I hadn’t updated it on the blog. I accepted a position as…
Do NHL teams forcing overtime fare better in the extra session?
A few days ago, I posted on momentum in hockey, finding that, on average and in tie games, a streak of…
On NHL Game 7’s
Three NHL Game 7’s are scheduled for tonight, so I figured I’d run some Game 7 numbers. For this analysis,…
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