Category: Sports
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On Monday, I posted in response to Bill Barnwell’s article on Grantland called “Mere Mortals” where he makes the claim that regular NFL players who played between 1959 and 1988 have a statistically significantly lower mortality rate than regular baseball players of the same era. I suspect all that has been demonstrated is that older…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of August 20, 2012 at 12:18pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 – 75-50 4 1 4 +102 Texas 2 – 71-50 5 3 13 +89 Tampa Bay 3 ↑6 68-54 7 4 5 +69 Washington 4 – 76-46 1 2 23 +109…
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Grantland recently published this article, Mere Mortals, which claims that: Baseball players who accrued at least five qualifying seasons from 1959 through 1988 died at a higher rate than similarly experienced football players from the same time frame. The difference between the two is statistically significant6and allows us to reject the null hypothesis; there is a…
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Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners just threw the third perfect game of the season, so I figured it was a good time to update my low hit games graphs that I posted in June. So, here they are: Cheers.
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of August 6, 2012 at 8:17pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 – 63-44 3 1 5 +92 Texas 2 – 63-44 4 2 13 +83 LA Angels 3 – 58-51 9 6 7 +49 Washington 4 ↑2 65-43 2 4 23 +82…
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Canada is incredible. They somehow managed to win 18 total medal and only 1 gold. Amazing. How is it possible to be so consistently nearly the best? Has anyone ever won more medals with fewer golds? Cheers.
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Here are some star plots for major league baseball batters, pitchers, and ball parks. The star plots represent the outcomes of a particular at bat for a hitter, a pitcher, or at a given ball park. For each plot, batter, pitcher, and ball park was varied, while the other two parameters were filled in with…
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I saw a talk at JSM where I was introduced to a fun new (well, new to me) game to play during the NCAA tournament. First, teams are assigned a price based on their seed. This can be done in many ways, but it was set in the talk that the one seeds cost 25…
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Canada loves winning bronze medals….
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of August 6, 2012 at 8:17pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 – 63-44 3 1 5 +92 Texas 2 – 63-44 4 2 13 +83 LA Angels 3 – 58-51 9 6 7 +49 Washington 4 ↑2 65-43 2 4 23 +82…
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