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My article “Here Comes the STRAIN: Analyzing Defensive Pass Rush in American Football with Player Tracking Data” with Quang Nguyen and Ron Yurko was selected for inclusion in the AMSTAT News Editor’s Choice Collection. This means you can read the full article for free (Note: You can always read any of my articles for free. If…
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“People on the internet” (i’m talking about the anti-vax morons) scream about how myocarditis is a side effect of the vaccine, but big pharma doesn’t want you to know about. Chief, it’s literally listed on the CDC website. And if you are that worried about myocarditis, you know what causes myocarditis at much higher rates: Actual…
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Here is what’s always bothered me about multiple hypothesis testing. Let’s say there are 10 hypothesis tests and they come back and 3 of them are significant at the 0.05 level. However, after correcting for multiple test using, for simplicity, a Bonferroni correction, none of these tests are significant. (Assume that it doesn’t matter what method you…
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The “Tush Push” in Philadelphia is called the “Brotherly Shove”. Here are the names I’ve come up with for the other 31 teams. I have no idea for a bunch of these. Please offer suggestions. Patriots: The Revolutionary Score Jets: The Jet Pack Bills: The Queen Careen (SNF just called this the “Buffalo Bobsled”. Mine is better.) Dolphins:…
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Let’s say there are three generic teams A, B, and C, and I ask you which team is better: A or B. And let’s say you rank them: A B Great. Now let’s say I ask you to rank A, B, and C. The only three reasonable rankings are: C A B OR A C B…
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Five AFC teams have already clinched playoff spots: Ravens, Dolphins, Chiefs, Texans, and Browns. This means there are two playoff spots left in the AFC. With the Steelers and Texans winning yesterday, the AFC is now pretty simple and there are only two games today that matter in terms of playoff qualification: Dolphins vs Bill and Jaguars…
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I was mentioned on ESPN today. Well, not me. But my work. I am one of the “four” researchers (That paper has three authors….) they are talking about! I’m a pretty big deal. Cheers.
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Updated: August 26, 2024 (Update at end of article). So I recently did a comedy set (because I’m a comedian and you can’t stop me) about words you could spell with the symbols of the chemical elements. It’s hilarious, because I’m hilarious, and you can see it here. Unrelated to this, Jay Cuda is out…
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We (Ben Baumer, Quang Nguyen, and myself) just got our paper entitled “Big ideas in sports analytics and statistical tools for their investigation” published. My favorite thing that I learned from writing that paper was about the existence of the sportyR package. It’s my second favorite package of all time……after teamcolors, of course. We (Quang…
