SUBMIT TO 2018 JSM DATA ART SHOW  JSM Data Art show history Chicago 2016  In the summer of 2016, JSM was held in Chicago.  I live in Chicago had the idea to try to have a data art show somewhere in Chicago to coincide with JSM.  So I tweeted out the idea asking if anyone…

Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: To facilitate an easier sharing of code and figures, I’ve started a RMarkdown blog, which you will find at http://statsbylopez.netlify.com/. All new blog posts will be shared at this new site. I’m going to keep the WordPress site active for the time being, so past articles aren’t going anywhere. In the meantime,…

Round of 64 I think generally the committee did a pretty good job this year, at least in terms of first round games.  The only lower seeded teams that I have favored in the first round are Florida St. over Missouri and Butler over Arkansas (though I have Houston as only a tiny favorite over…

Estimated chances of making the Sweet Sixteen Villanova(1) – 81.14% Virginia(1) – 77.89% Purdue(2) – 76.24% Kansas(1) – 74.40% Duke(2) – 74.03% Michigan St(3) – 72.59% North Carolina(2) – 72.02% Cincinnati(2) – 66.60% Tennessee(3) – 59.16% Auburn(4) – 59.08% Gonzaga(4) – 58.10% Texas Tech(3) – 56.45% Xavier(1) – 56.06% Michigan(3) – 53.65% West Virginia(5) –…

Conference Champions Highest Seed Remaining in Conference Tournament 1 seeds: Virginia, Xavier, Michigan St, Villanova 2 seeds: Duke, Kansas, Purdue, Tennessee 3 seeds: Cincinnati, Wichita St, Auburn, North Carolina 4 seeds: Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio St, Clemson 5 seeds: Nevada, Arkansas, Miami (FL), Virginia Tech 6 seeds: Texas A&M, Gonzaga, West Virginia, Houston 7 seeds: Texas Tech,…

Every couple of years in February I get around to writing about Super Bowl squares. It’s been a few years, so I decided to update the post. So here is the updated 2 dimensional histogram of how often certain numbers occur in Super Bowl squares.  Nothing new here.  You want to get some combination of…

I was looking at some recent Super Bowl lines — this year’s line is 5 and the last seven previously were 3, 4.5, 1, 2, 4.5, 2.5, 3, 5 — and thought to myself that they seemed very small.  I remember Super Bowl’s from when I was in middle/junior/high school being much larger.  The largest…

I heard some ridiculous stat in passing that the Cleveland Browns have started some huge number of quarterback in the last 10 years.  So what I wanted to do was check to see how often teams in the NFL are switching quarterbacks.  I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to…

So Tango live blogged my live blog of his live blog of the WAR podcast from stolen signs.  I am thoroughly enjoying this.  Here are my responses (my responses in bold): use a highly ad hoc methods to reach their replacement level That’s a FEATURE not a bug! … still reading What? How is an…

2014 Record 2015 Record 2016 Record My record 2017: Week 1 – SU: 9-6 ATS: 7-8 O/U: 9-5-1 Week 2 – SU: 12-4 ATS: 9-7 O/U: 7-8-1 Week 3 – SU: 7-9 ATS: 7-9 O/U: 6-10 Week 4 – SU: 11-5 ATS: 3-13 O/U: 6-10  Week 5 – SU: 8-6 ATS: 7-7 O/U: 7-7 Week…