Posted on 2023-05-05 in Posts
Since 2021 I've made plots of MLB standings to help me keep up with the various division races. Those original plots were here. Below are those same plots for this year. (these should update daily):
Posted on 2022-04-18 in Posts
Last year I made a set of plots of MLB standings to help me keep up with the various divisions. Those plots were here. Below are those same plots for 2022. (these should update daily):
Posted on 2021-12-05 in Posts
Michigan won the Big Ten! Those who stay will be champions.
Michigan fans can now look forward to the college football playoff and debating the seeding. Unfortunately Georgia couldn't knock Alabama out, so the picture is a little more crowded. A big question is who will be in and who …
Posted on 2021-08-22 in Posts
When the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic first hit, I spent some time trying to find any good sources of data on its severity over time and between states (and countries). My interest in this faded as case rates decreased and vaccines became available. But now as the Delta variant is working its …
Posted on 2021-05-16 in Posts
I find that one of the joys of a baseball season is the narrative arc that has the chance to develop over the course of a 162-game season. But keeping up with such an arc for a single team is hard enough, let alone the broader context of other divisions …
Posted on 2018-01-09 in Posts
An update to college football rankings:
Posted on 2017-12-10 in Posts
An update to college football rankings:
Posted on 2017-11-21 in Posts
In a previous post, I had outlined a college football ranking construct. I've since made a few additional plots to illustrate how teams compare now now (after week 12) and where they stood in past weeks.
Posted on 2017-10-22 in Posts
In a previous post, I had outlined a college football ranking construct. In it, I assume that the quality a team is made up of two parts: the part that scores and the part that keeps others from scoring. The quality of team \(i\) then, can be summarized by the …
Posted on 2017-10-10 in Posts
The activity of ranking teams has played an important role in college football through the post-war and modern periods. This comes about for several reasons: short seasons, a large field of teams, largely regional scheduling, and lack of a playoff. Together these lead to a poorly-connect graph of teams and …