The 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings start Sunday in Chicago. Karl Broman put out his calendar – I figured I’d put mine…
Is there a midweek effect on soccer performance?
I’ve long had my eye out for intriguing papers that cover my two favorite areas of research, causal inference and…
The making and comparison of draft curves
Over the years, there have been several ‘draft curves’ put together in each of the four major North American sports.…
Patriots fumbles, part 87
No one wants to read about Patriots fumble rates, and I don’t want to write about Patriots fumble rates. But I…
On soccer’s declining home field advantage
As part of their final assignment in my statistics and sports class, students were tasked with looking at the home advantage…
It’s time for Game 7’s. What can we expect?
NHL Game 7’s are awesome, and in the next two days, we get two such contests – Dallas vs. St. Louis…
Approximate value and the NFL draft
A few days back, I summarized recent research on the NFL draft. One interesting anecdote was the reliance of nearly all NFL draft…
The NFL draft – where we stand in 2016
Another NFL draft has come and gone, and with it has come the predictable displays of unyielding optimism, stale and arguably race-based generalizations of player…
10 million-billion-shmillion
In probability class, one of the most frequently cited examples is the birthday problem: Given a class of N students, what is the…
The NHL studio host was…right?
During Tuesday’s Game 4 between St. Louis and Chicago, a fracas in the Blackhawks end led a strange series of events.…
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