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Below are Luke Benz’s Euro Cup 2021 predictions from June 10.  You should all be following Luke. Some thoughts on June 28: The Czech Republic only had a 15% chance of reaching the quarterfinals!  And the Netherlands had the second highest probability of making the quarterfinals. Belgium will play Italy in the quarterfinals.  That could…

This paper from the December 2020 issue of JQAS is wonderful: A Bayesian marked spatial point processes model for basketball shot chart. Simply put, the build a model looking at where players are taking shots and then given a location, how often are they making shots from those locations. I’m particularly interested in this point…

Tapestry for reflective data visualization  

I made a shiny app for organizing openmics in Chicago.  (Yes, I’ve started doing stand up.  No, I’m not good……yet.) The code for making this app can be found on my github. And the wonderful Shiny cheatsheet can be found here. The real key for me to get this to work was the addition of…

So I’m working on an aging curve in baseball research project with two of my students here at Loyola.  While there has been quite a bit of work done on aging curves in many sports, including baseball, our question that we are interested in is this: What would the aging curve look like if players…

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So my 4 year old daughter was sick yesterday and I spent part of the afternoon playing chutes and ladders with her.  (She won every game because there is apparently a law in my house that the sick child always wins the game). So I got to thinking about how many turns is the typical…

Some fun facts about the Sweet 16 in the 2021 NCAA tournament: The average seed of a team in the Sweet 16 this year is 5.875. The only seeds not represented in the Sweet Sixteen are 9, 10, 13, 14, and 16. This means there are 11 unique seeds represented in the Sweet Sixteen.  There…

The Rockies just traded Nolan Arenado to the Cardinals for pitcher Austin Gomber, Tony Locey, and Jake Sommers and infielders Mateo Gil and Elehuris Montero.  And the Rockies will CONTINUE TO PAY Arenado even though he’s playing in St. Louis.   So this trade is…..to put it bluntly….fucking stupid.  Nolan Arenado is one of the…