Category: Sports
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Republican presidential debate, Obama addressing the nation, AND the start of the NFL season. It’s almost too much to handle. Before we get to any NFL predictions, I’ll make a presidential prediction. Mitt Romney is going to win the Republican nomination. I don’t care what Perry’s poll numbers are right now. I don’t think Republican’s…
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I’ve been playing around with the faces function from the R package aplpack. I haven’t used it in a while, but there are some new features that I’ve either never noticed before or they are new. Color has been added to the faces and you can now plot the faces. There is also the superfluously fantastic…
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Watson, an IBM computer, recently competed on Jeopardy, demoralizing his opponents Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. (Jennings describes what it was like to lose the Watson here.) Really it was an uneven playing field from the start. For example, “Watson’s brain showcases several IBM technologies. The hardware is jammed into 10 refrigerator-sized racks filled with…
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14 week of the NFL Season are gone. 3 weeks remain. There have been a few big changes in the projected playoff seeds. In the AFC, the Jets fall to a projected 6 seed and the Ravens take over the 5 seed. Also, Jacksonville and Kansas City change places with Jacksonville projected to be the…
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The interesting thing about these playoff projections are that Philadelphia is projected to be the 2 seed in the NFC over Chicago even though Chicago has 1 more win than them. Take a look at the rest of the Eagle’s schedule and then look at the Bear’s remaining schedule and it becomes very clear why…
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First off, what a joke the NFC West is. Although, I am excited about rooting for a 6 win team to make the playoffs and get a first round home playoff game. Nice work NFL. A thought about being the 2 seed: I think in a year like this there may be some advantage to…
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Playoff Picture: AFC 1. NewEngland 2. Pittsburgh 3. Indianapolis 4. Kansas City 5. NYJets 6. Baltimore NFC 1. Atlanta 2. Philadelphia 3. GreenBay 4. Seattle 5. NewOrleans 6. TampaBay Estimated Probabilities of making the playoffs/conference champion/super bowl champion: AFC.Playoff.Teams Baltimore Cleveland Denver Houston Indianapolis 0.9706 0.0002 0.0046 0.0024 0.6040 Jacksonville KansasCity Miami NewEngland NYJets 0.3584…
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This was forwarded to me by S.J. It’s quite a long journey from the stuff in this video to some of the present day statistics like spatial aggregate fielding evaluation (S.A.F.E). “[Recorded: circa 1959] – “The Electronic Coach” is a short film made by IBM describing the use of computers in the management of a…
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I’ve been in Vancouver the past week for the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) . Here is a collection of my thoughts and comments from the few days I was at the conference. On Monday I went to the section on Survey Research Methods and saw Meena Khare, of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)…
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Well there are 16 teams left and my bracket is in shambles. Let’s review the predictions from last week. My failures: Two of my final four teams are gone (Villanova and Kansas) including my champion (Kansas) so I won’t win any office pools this year. My triumphs: -A lot of my predictions from my tournament…
Stats in the Wild 