My record last year Total (weeks 1-16) – SU: 136-87 ATS: 112-105-1 O/U: 121-96-2 Week 1 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 10-6 O/U: 11-5 Week 2 – SU: 8-8 ATS: 9-7 O/U: 9-7Week 3 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 2-14 O/U: 7-8-1 Week 4 – SU: 10-5 ATS: 9-6 O/U: 9-6 Week 5 – SU: 7-7 ATS: 9-4-1 O/U: 6-8 Week 6 –…

Originally posted on Exploring Baseball Data with R: Ben Baumer and Greg Matthews have a relatively new R package openWAR that facilitates calculation of WAR based on methodology from their recently published paper in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports. See their github site for a description of installing the package. One attractive feature…

My record last year Total (weeks 1-16) – SU: 136-87 ATS: 112-105-1 O/U: 121-96-2 Week 1 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 10-6 O/U: 11-5 Week 2 – SU: 8-8 ATS: 9-7 O/U: 9-7Week 3 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 2-14 O/U: 7-8-1 Week 4 – SU: 10-5 ATS: 9-6 O/U: 9-6 Week 5 – SU: 7-7 ATS: 9-4-1 O/U: 6-8 Week 6 –…

My record last year Total (weeks 1-16) – SU: 136-87 ATS: 112-105-1 O/U: 121-96-2Week 1 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 10-6 O/U: 11-5 Week 2 – SU: 8-8 ATS: 9-7 O/U: 9-7 Week 3 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 2-14 O/U: 7-8-1 Week 4 – SU: 10-5 ATS: 9-6 O/U: 9-6 Week 5 – SU: 7-7 ATS: 9-4-1 O/U: 6-8 Week 6 –…

My record last year Total (weeks 1-16) – SU: 136-87 ATS: 112-105-1 O/U: 121-96-2 Week 1 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 10-6 O/U: 11-5 Week 2 – SU: 8-8 ATS: 9-7 O/U: 9-7 Week 3 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 2-14 O/U: 7-8-1 Week 4 – SU: 10-5 ATS: 9-6 O/U: 9-6 Week 5 – SU: 7-7 ATS: 9-4-1 O/U: 6-8 Week 6…

I started to make ONE word cloud of the presidential debate tonight, but then I just kept going and I made them for six of the debates.  My main motivation was to see how many times the democrats said the word “coalition” tonight (Answer: 22).  The word clouds contain all words that were mentioned (by…

Public Policy Polling published the results of a recent poll of 532 Republican primary voters.  Among other results, Trump is polling around 40% and 26% of respondents believe Islam should be illegal in the United States. Now, I’m not a Trump supporter, but supporting him is a matter of personal preference.  If you want to support him,…

My record last year Total (weeks 1-15) – SU: 128-79 ATS: 103-98-1 O/U: 114-88-1 Week 1 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 10-6 O/U: 11-5 Week 2 – SU: 8-8 ATS: 9-7 O/U: 9-7 Week 3 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 2-14 O/U: 7-8-1 Week 4 – SU: 10-5 ATS: 9-6 O/U: 9-6 Week 5 – SU: 7-7 ATS: 9-4-1 O/U: 6-8 Week 6…

Originally posted on God plays dice: Paul Erdős is still publishing. His newest paper, with Ron Graham and Steve Butler,shows that any natural number can be written as a sum with , where each denominator is the product of three distinct primes. A footnote, on the obvious generalization to expressing rational numbers in such a…

My record last year Total (weeks 1-13) – SU: 129-79 ATS: 105-98-5 O/U: 115-89-3 Week 1 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 10-6 O/U: 11-5 Week 2 – SU: 8-8 ATS: 9-7 O/U: 9-7 Week 3 – SU: 10-6 ATS: 2-14 O/U: 7-8-1 Week 4 – SU: 10-5 ATS: 9-6 O/U: 9-6 Week 5 – SU: 7-7 ATS: 9-4-1 O/U: 6-8 Week 6…