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Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: With interest in statistical applications to sports creeping from the blogosphere to the mainstream, more writers than ever are interested in metrics that can more accurately summarize or predict player and team skill. This is, by and large, a good thing. Smarter writing is better writing. A downside, however, is that writers without…
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The 2015 NFL season is almost here. That means it’s time for my NFL preview (2014 NFL Preview, 2013 NFL Season Preview)! Cheers. Ranks Retro is based only on games played in the 2014-2015 season and heavily weighs strength of schedule. Prosp is based on 4 years of data weighted for recency. It’s based on expected…
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Originally posted on andrea cirillo's blog: Because Afraus received a good interest, last month I override shinyapps.io free plan limits. That got me move my Shiny App on an Amazon AWS instance. Well, it was not so straight forward: even if there is plenty of tutorials around the web, every one seems to miss a…
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I got back from #JSM2015 in Seattle yesterday. While I was there I compiled this list of links of interesting things (talks, R packages, etc.) that I took away from JSM2015. There are a ton of slides that I would love to add to this list (i.e. the rest of the talks from the session…
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Originally posted on God plays dice: C. Liam Brown has built a Battleship probability calculator, which (roughly speaking) works by finding the square which is the most likely to yield a hit given the set of hits and misses so far. You can play against it if you want. A lot of this might be…
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I woke up this morning to a twitter comment about the “CDC Whistleblower Saga” from last year from one of my favorite twitter followers. This obviously led to a conversion explaining to me that: vaccines aren’t effective, the idea of herd immunity has been debunked, they are making kids sick, and they cause autism (Vaccines…
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Originally posted on r4stats.com: [Since this was originally published in 2013, I’ve collected new data that renders this article obsolete. You can always see the most recent data here. -Bob Muenchen] Learning to use a data analysis tool well takes significant effort, so people tend to continue using the tool they learned in college for…
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For the last nine years I’ve gone on a golfing trip to Vermont with my dad. After the first year we started a competition complete with plaque and names engraved for the champions. Here are the rules. We play 7 rounds over the course of 4 days and you take your lowest score on each…
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Thanks to everyone who came to see the show! For those of you who missed it, I’ll be at Estate Ultra Bar at 1177 N Elston Ave on August 6th!
