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The Sun, 20 mph speed limits, and a lot of nonsense
CONTROVERSIAL 20mph speed limits designed to cut road casualties are not working, official figures show. So says The Sun anyway*. So, what’s the problem? A report from the Department for Transpo… more →
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Damned Lies & Statistics: How much FenClose does $196 MM buy? (spoiler: not much)
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wrote 2 months ago: The Minnesota Wild are not built to win right now. When they have their collective heads out of thei … more →
Damned Lies & Statistics: For Ryan Suter, Shea Weber is Conan O'Brien & Jared Spurgeon is Liz Lemon
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wrote 3 months ago: Did you watch the 30 Rock finale? Do you remember the scene where Liz Lemon gets onto an elevator wi … more →
Damned Lies & Statistics: Minnesota Wild early individual Corsi--Mikko Koivu should be nicknamed Atlas
wrote 3 months ago: It’s a rainy day in Southern California–a perfect time to stay inside and look at some e … more →
Betting the NFL Championship Weekend: When your eyes tell you different than the stats
wrote 3 months ago: The reason the NFL Playoffs are so fun is that they are completely and totally unpredictable. So why … more →
Advanced Stats, Betting Previews for NFL Divisional Weekend--the best weekend in pro football!
wrote 4 months ago: I have been thinking a lot about the NHL season that was recently brought back from the dead (zombie … more →
Advanced Stats, Betting Previews for Wild Card Weekend: Gimme those points!
wrote 4 months ago: There is really nothing like the NFL playoffs–each game during the regular season is an event … more →
Expanding "Puck Hog" Stats - Multidimensional Shooting Analysis, Minnesota Wild
wrote 6 months ago: Recently, an interesting article was published to the NHLNumbers website examining the behavior of s … more →
Home-Ice Advantage and Zone Entries: Curiouser and Curiouser
wrote 6 months ago: I had planned on continuing the work I started last week and looking more at shots generated per zon … more →
MN Wild Zone Entries, Team-Level Stats Pt 1: Eat it, Edmonton!
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wrote 7 months ago: I finally finished data entry for this Minnesota Wild Zone Entry project, so I now have all 81 games … more →
"Tell them they are being attacked"
wrote 7 months ago: Making the rounds of the media this weekend has been a report listing the world’s fifty most d … more →
More on MLB Team Efficiency: Which Division Winners Added/Subtracted the Most Salary?
wrote 7 months ago: In my last post, I offered a breakdown of how much each MLB team spent per win, on average. For a di … more →
MLB Most Efficient Teams - Dollars Spent per Win
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wrote 7 months ago: Moneyball got me into sports analytics (the book not the movie…hipster nerd slam!) and after e … more →
Relax, our nation's bacon supplies are safe
wrote 7 months ago: The story circulating the world about a looming crisis in the bacon supply has turned out to be a lo … more →
Minnesota Wild Zone Entries 2011-12: First Sixty Games
wrote 8 months ago: . Abstract (tl;dr version) The present research examines the first sixty games of the 2011-12 Minnes … more →
GST on overseas online sales: for fuck's sake, do the maths!
wrote 8 months ago: New South Wales Treasurer Mike Baird has proposed lowering the GST-free threshold for online purchas … more →
I keep adding things to the list, so here's the list
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wrote 8 months ago: People who think the phrase ‘as a mother…’ lends moral authority to anything that comes … more →
The Sun, 20 mph speed limits, and a lot of nonsense
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wrote 9 months ago: CONTROVERSIAL 20mph speed limits designed to cut road casualties are not working, official figures s … more →
Newspaper editors 'concerned about quality' but not about hiring journalists who can write good
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wrote 9 months ago: Newspaper editors are deeply concerned about the declining quality of journalism in this country. So … more →
Sneering at 'citizen journalists' lays bare the media's contempt for its audience
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wrote 9 months ago: The Sydney Morning Herald‘s Chief Sports Columnist Richard Hinds this morning got himself into … more →
