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An explanation of RIPPEN RIPPEN rankings for week 6 performances: Player Team RIPPEN QB rating Flacco, J. BAL 38.201 106.9 Manning, P. DEN 34.475 129.0 Rodgers, A. GB 33.463 133.8 Freeman, J. TB 33.324 124.7 Palmer, C. OAK 33.153 102.2 Wilson, R. SEA 30.824 133.7 Griffin, III, R. WAS 26.015 97.2 Bradford, S. STL 25.218…
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From this article: We have done, for example, principal components analyses via singular value decomposition with matrices as large as 100,000×100,000 in under an hour. Wow.
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Originally posted on The stupidest thing…: I briefly investigated how to draw curved arrows in R. Here’s a small piece of the figure that I ultimately created: A google search for “curved arrows in R” revealed three options: curvedarrow in the diagram package The internal function igraph.Arrows within the igraph package (mentioned by Gabor Csardi…
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I particularly liked this comment from Martin Romero on Andrew Gelman’s blog:
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Overall Records for 2012 SU: 53-38 (58.24%) ATS: 51-40 (56.04%) O/U: 50-39 (56.18%) Week 6 (6-8 SU, 7-7 ATS, 6-7 O/U) Week 5 (10-4 SU, 7-7 ATS, 7-7 O/U) Week 4 (10-5 SU, 10-5 ATS, 12-2 O/U) Week 3 (5-11 SU, 9-7 ATS, 9-7 O/U) Week 2 (11-5 SU, 9-7 ATS, 8-8 O/U) Week 1 (11-5…
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Originally posted on Causal Sports Fan: Last week, I entered the fray on the Mike Trout versus Miguel Cabrera AL MVP debate. It’s similar to the 2010 AL Cy Young discussion — Felix Hernandez led the AL in strikeouts and ERA but managed just a 13-12 record because Seattle couldn’t score. The new era of…
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I’m currently in 11th place (up a few after Chicago’s win) with a 37-26 record (58.73%) in picks so far in the TeamRankings.com NFL pool. As a pessimist, I assume this is going to fall apart in grand fashion.
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Originally posted on Causal Sports Fan: Bill Barnwell is up to his usual tricks at Grantland. This time, he’s tired of hearing that Flacco is an elite quarterback and wants a new measure of quarterback value. Flacco gets credit for piling up wins, which Barnwell thinks is unfair: For whatever good or bad Flacco provides,…
