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Damned Lies & Statistics: How much FenClose does $196 MM buy? (spoiler: not much)1 comment

Bob Spencer 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 Lemon1 comment

Bob Spencer 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 →

Tags: NHL, Minnesota Wild, Mike Yeo, ryan suter, Shea Weber, jared spurgeon, Liz Lemon, Conan O'Brien, 30 Rock

Damned Lies & Statistics: Minnesota Wild early individual Corsi--Mikko Koivu should be nicknamed Atlas

Bob Spencer wrote 3 months ago: It’s a rainy day in Southern California–a perfect time to stay inside and look at some e … more →

Tags: NHL, Fantasy Hockey, Minnesota Wild, Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Mikko Koivu, Dany Heatley, Zach Parise, Cal Clutterbuck, Kyle Brodziak

Betting the NFL Championship Weekend: When your eyes tell you different than the stats

Bob Spencer wrote 3 months ago: The reason the NFL Playoffs are so fun is that they are completely and totally unpredictable. So why … more →

Tags: NFL, nfl playoffs, Baltimore Ravens, Ray Lewis, New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, Tom Brady, Matt Ryan, Julio Jones

Advanced Stats, Betting Previews for NFL Divisional Weekend--the best weekend in pro football!

Bob Spencer wrote 4 months ago: I have been thinking a lot about the NHL season that was recently brought back from the dead (zombie … more →

Tags: Houston Texans, Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, Baltimore Ravens, Seattle Seahawks, Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch, New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers

Advanced Stats, Betting Previews for Wild Card Weekend: Gimme those points!

Bob Spencer wrote 4 months ago: There is really nothing like the NFL playoffs–each game during the regular season is an event … more →

Tags: NFL, nfl playoffs, Cincinnati Bengals, Houston Texans, Minnesota Vikings, Green Bay Packers, Adrian Peterson, Aaron Rodgers, Indianapolis Colts

Expanding "Puck Hog" Stats - Multidimensional Shooting Analysis, Minnesota Wild

Bob Spencer wrote 6 months ago: Recently, an interesting article was published to the NHLNumbers website examining the behavior of s … more →

Tags: Stat Workshop, NHL, Fantasy Hockey, Minnesota Wild, puck hog, attempted shot ratio, shooting ratio

Home-Ice Advantage and Zone Entries: Curiouser and Curiouser

Bob Spencer wrote 6 months ago: I had planned on continuing the work I started last week and looking more at shots generated per zon … more →

Tags: NHL, Minnesota Wild, zone entries, Home-Road Splits

MN Wild Zone Entries, Team-Level Stats Pt 1: Eat it, Edmonton!1 comment

Bob Spencer wrote 7 months ago: I finally finished data entry for this Minnesota Wild Zone Entry project, so I now have all 81 games … more →

Tags: Inside the numbers, Edmonton Oilers, Minnesota Wild, zone entries, Northwest Division, Central Division, Pacific Division

"Tell them they are being attacked"

richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: Making the rounds of the media this weekend has been a report listing the world’s fifty most d … more →

Tags: Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, policía, Legal System, Right Wing Idiots, Death Squads, Yunque, Useless Factoids, lies

More on MLB Team Efficiency: Which Division Winners Added/Subtracted the Most Salary?

Bob Spencer 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 →

Tags: MLB, moneyball, mlb team efficiency, MLB playoffs, 2012 mlb playoffs

MLB Most Efficient Teams - Dollars Spent per Win2 comments

Bob Spencer wrote 7 months ago: Moneyball got me into sports analytics (the book not the movie…hipster nerd slam!) and after e … more →

Tags: dollars per win, Major League Baseball, MLB, moneyball

Relax, our nation's bacon supplies are safe

Josh 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 →

Tags: media, Marketroids, porkies, bacon, Shortage, Pork, Dallas, Riyadh, Beijing

Minnesota Wild Zone Entries 2011-12: First Sixty Games

Bob Spencer wrote 8 months ago: . Abstract (tl;dr version) The present research examines the first sixty games of the 2011-12 Minnes … more →

Tags: Stat Workshop, NHL, Minnesota Wild, zone entry

GST on overseas online sales: for fuck's sake, do the maths!

Josh wrote 8 months ago: New South Wales Treasurer Mike Baird has proposed lowering the GST-free threshold for online purchas … more →

Tags: media, Politics, Money, Government, abc, Productivity Commission, Sydney Morning Herald, Mike Baird, GST

I keep adding things to the list, so here's the list6 comments

Josh wrote 8 months ago: People who think the phrase ‘as a mother…’ lends moral authority to anything that comes … more →

Tags: Music, Science, media, Politics, sydney, Nerds, Marketroids, Techno-wankery, Wordy things

The Sun, 20 mph speed limits, and a lot of nonsense5 comments

atomicspin wrote 9 months ago: CONTROVERSIAL 20mph speed limits designed to cut road casualties are not working, official figures s … more →

Tags: Health and Correctness gone Politically Safe, Nonexistent war on motorists, Not remotely true, Sun

Newspaper editors 'concerned about quality' but not about hiring journalists who can write good2 comments

Josh wrote 9 months ago: Newspaper editors are deeply concerned about the declining quality of journalism in this country. So … more →

Tags: media, Techno-wankery, Wordy things, Journalism, Journalism at the Speed of Bytes, Australian Research Council, Walkley Foundation, Reality Distortion Field, Amanda Wilson

Sneering at 'citizen journalists' lays bare the media's contempt for its audience10 comments

Josh wrote 9 months ago: The Sydney Morning Herald‘s Chief Sports Columnist Richard Hinds this morning got himself into … more →

Tags: media, sport/boofheads, twitter, facebook, Liesel Jones, Richard Hinds, Citizen Journalists, Pajamahadeen, Greg Baum


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