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Originally posted on Stats in the Wild: ? ? Last year I wrote a post about super bowl squares: I received an email this morning from a friend: “Is there any sort of a statistical breakdown for which are the best numbers to have in a Super Bowl squares pool (for entertainment purposes only)?” Now, if my friend…

Another post that has nothing to do with statistics.  (If you want to read about statistics though, maybe you’ll enjoy this piece that @statsbylopez and I wrote for Deadspin.) Yesterday, I posted about my friend getting her picture she was trying to sell on Society6 pulled based on their concern over trademark issues with Cher.  Here…

This has nothing to do with statistics, but it’s too good to not post. My friend posted a bunch of prints on Society6.com, and attempted to caption one of them “Quabbin Reservoir, Belchertown, Massachusetts”, but it was red flagged for copyright infringement. So they wrote them to see what the claimed copyright was, and this…

Total (weeks 1-17) – SU: 170-85-1 ATS: 126-124-6 O/U: 135-118-3  Playoffs – SU: 8-2, ATS: 6-4, O/U: 8-2 Week 1 – SU: 9-7-0 ATS: 8-8-0 O/U: 13-3-0 Week 2 – SU: 10-6-0 ATS: 10-6-0 O/U: 10-6-0 Week 3 – SU: 12-4-0 ATS: 9-6-1  O/U: 8-8-0 Week 4 – SU: 7-6-0 ATS: 5-7-1  O/U: 5-8-0 Week 5 –…

This article contains one of the dumbest paragraphs I have ever seen a sports writer write [emphasis added]: Those who love to blame everything that happens in the NFL on Roger Goodell are yelping about the fact investigators have yet to interview Brady. Trust me, he will be interviewed. In depth. The NFL has called upon…

Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: Ample literature has gone into what teachers should do on the first day of class. Should they do an ice-breaker? Dive right into notes? Review a few example questions to motivate the course? I don’t really have control groups to use as a comparison, but I think these two activities were helpful and…

I was watching the football games last weekend and one of the announcers said something like “This kicker is 16/17 on the season.”  I absolutely hate this.  16/17 means nothing if you don’t factor in how long the field goals are (I’ve talked about this before here.)  So I spent a little bit of time thinking…

Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: A few months ago, my friend & writer Noah Davis asked me a question that was bothering him. I’ll paraphrase, but this was roughly what he said: Does consistency matter for quarterbacks? Like would you rather have an average QB who is never really great, or a good QB who occasionally sucks? Well, fortunately there…