Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: Some quick notes to wrap up the Boston Bruins’ recent sweep of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Boston held Pittsburgh stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin off the board, while as a team, the Penguins managed just two goals in four games (all data taken from hockey-reference.com). 1- Penguins star Sidney Crosby was held…

Updated June 7, 2013 at 12:34 am. Yearly Production for a player is the approximate number of runs a team would score if the entire lineup consisted of the same player. Total Production is weighted by the number of plate appearances.   Rank Player Total Production Yearly Production 1 MiguelCabrera 759 1591 2 ChrisDavis 747 1752…

StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of June 7, 2012 at 2pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff St. Louis 1 ↑2 39-12 1 1 24 +40 Cincinnati 2 ↑3 36-24 3 7 20 +29 Boston 3 ↓2 37-24 4 2 9 +23 Texas 4 ↑3 36-23 2 3 22 +21…

Perhaps Mac Engel is a brilliant satirist or perhaps he is just trying to get people to pay attention to him. As a statistician, I’m going to make an assumption (that’s what us stats guys do), and I’ll start by assuming that Engel is indeed sincere in his belief that “Mathematics is not a friend…

  I’m still blocked from following @BillBarnwell on Twitter.  But what I don’t quite understand is what is the point of blocking anyone if your account is public?  I’m blocked from following him, but I can still read all his tweets because his account is public.  So, what do you gain by blocking someone?  There…

  Deadspin answers the question of whether you live in IHOP America or Waffle House America.   I also found it particularly interested that at the very end of the Deadspin article they say: Waffle House does so much business in the South that the impact of hurricanes on Waffle House service is actually an informal measure…

You Are Not So Smart The Misconception: You should focus on the successful if you wish to become successful. The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisible. In New York City, in an apartment along the Hudson River, above trees reaching out over sidewalks and dogs pulling at leashes…

I graduated from UConn in 2011, and I gave a talk there this morning.  After my talk I met with some friends for lunch who are in the middle of their dissertations.  As it starts to get nice outside in Storrs, many of them are having trouble writing their dissertations.  As such, my former office…