About a year ago, I wrote a piece for Deadspin that linked anecdotal evidence with peer-reviewed literature on how referee behavior is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Analyzing the SuperContest
This fall, the Westgate Las Vegas Hotel Casino is hosting the prestigious SuperContest, in which entrants pony up $1500 to…
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,…
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…
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…
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