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Here is a review of the BCS that I wrote like 15 years ago. I still love it. The BCS Every year, undergraduate super fans follow every pass, every defensive stop, and every concussion of the season attempting to will their team to a national championship. Alas, it is not meant to be for most.…
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There are currently (June 23, 2026 9:52pm Central Daylight time) 4 teams that have no allowed a goal at this World Cup: Argentina and Mexico have already officially advanced. There are also 4 teams that have yet to score: Haiti, Panama, and Turkey have all been officially eliminated (along with Tunisia, but at least Tunisia…
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I was at a bar once and the question of “What’s the worst NFL record you can have and still make the playoffs?” came up. We figured out pretty quickly, you can theoretically win your division (and host a home game!) without ever winning a game. If you lose all non-division games and tie all…
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Sometimes just take a question ans see what AI will do with it. This question came across my desk today: Can you help us calculate how improbable this is? The current estimate is there are ~20,000 protein coding genes in the human genome, so clearly if you randomly drew 75 genes from 20,000 and 211…
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Here is another example of AI just being 100% confident in itself for no reason. Claude gave me this answer to a question that I asked: Sounds like a really good answer. But I wanted to read the details. So I followed up with this: Then it said this: So the two assertions it was…
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It just keeps getting worse: After 100 games: The cream has dropped: After 72 games: The cream keeps rising………. Through 48 games. Through 24 games: Through 20 games: Through 12 games: My probabilities to my Kaggle March Madness contest: March 19, 2026 Men Ohio State over TCU: 59.36% (Loss: 0.352361) Nebraska over Troy: 86.92% (Loss:…
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I was in New Orleans last week at Tulane for Love Data Week 2026 where I gave my Data Art talk. But that’s not important. While I was there, I learned all about Mardi Gras traditions that I was completely unaware of, specifically: King Cakes. For some reason, these lunatics in New Orleans hide a…
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This plot is awesome. Read the full paper: https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-applied-statistics/volume-12/issue-4/How-often-does-the-best-team-win-A-unified-approach/10.1214/18-AOAS1165.full Cheers.
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The White House just posted this tweet: The “readers added context” gets this correct as a misrepresentation. It’s actually only a 1.2% increase. The issue is a truncated y-axis. Don’t do this with bar charts! Preserved here if this ever gets taken down: Boy, this Donald Trump fellow sure does seem dishonest. This reminds me…
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Today I learned how to get rid of the pesky “1” on the top of a ggplot facet_grid if I want to stack the plots vertically. Use facet_grid(rows = vars(group)). See my example below: Cheers.
Stats in the Wild 