It’s become a bit of a biannual tradition for me to write an about the Olympics – specifically the distribution of medals between countries. InRead More
Expected Wins
I am third in points scored, but 6th overall and in real danger of missing the playoffs. Digs SdLn TD UnBlvbl has had a historicallyRead More
Fantasy Playoff Probability 2018 wk11
Only having three weeks cuts down on the number of possible outcomes, however, I did enhance my predictions by adding in uncertainty for the tie-breakers.Read More
Teaming Data –> RootNPI
The DocGraph / CareSet team does great work and I have personally benefited from the availability of their original CMS teaming data, even using itRead More
Mendeley – Fixing Author and Journal Metadata
I use Mendeley to store, organize and manage my library of academic papers. It’s tagging and search features are excellent, and Mendeley helps keep theRead More
Olympics 2018: Medals Recap
Some thoughts on the results of the 2018 Olympics: Most pundits agree that this was a disappointing for Team USA. The haul of 23 medalsRead More
Fantasy Playoff Probability
I crunched the numbers for my fantasy football league (methodology details below) and here are the results: Team (current record) E(Wins) E(Rank) Playoffs 1st RoundRead More
Olympics 2016 Rio
It’s become a bit of a biannual tradition for me to write an about the Olympics – specifically the distribution of medals between countries. IRead More
Winter Olympics Medals Over Time – Post Olympics Update
The Winter Olympics have now closed. The host nation Russia walked away with both the most medals and the most golds. The increase was prettyRead More
Winter Olympics Medals Over Time
My Summer Olympics post two years ago was fairly popular, so now that I have a brief respite from graduate school deadlines I put togetherRead More