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Mock Tournament – 2015/16 NCAA Men’s Basketball (results thru March 9)
For the whole season I’ve been fitting Bradley-Terry results, and that still holds. But another consideration is “HOW” you play – and nothing captures that better in a simple way than Ken Pomeroy (and...
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Mock Tournament – 2015/16 NCAA Men’s Basketball (results thru March 10)
For the whole season I’ve been fitting Bradley-Terry results, and that still holds. But another consideration is “HOW” you play – and nothing captures that better in a simple way than Ken Pomeroy (and...
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Mock Tournament – 2015/16 NCAA Men’s Basketball (results thru March 11)
For the whole season I’ve been fitting Bradley-Terry results, and that still holds. But another consideration is “HOW” you play – and nothing captures that better in a simple way than Ken Pomeroy (and...
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Mock Tournament – 2015/16 NCAA Men’s Basketball (results thru March 11)
For the whole season I’ve been fitting Bradley-Terry results, and that still holds. But another consideration is “HOW” you play – and nothing captures that better in a simple way than Ken Pomeroy (and...
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The Boys on the Bus
It is discouraging that despite being a fixture in political and journalism syllabi, not much seems to have been learned in the 44 years since Timothy Crouse’s seminal The Boys on the the Bus took...
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The Three Body Problem
Liu Cixin’s The Three Body Problem, the winner of the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novel, is a novel about Earth’s contact with alien life, as well as the scars of China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s,...
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Everything I Never Told You
I find myself thinking about the life partner. I try to avoid biography, and bringing in people into these posts who did not volunteer for such a job, but it still turns over in my mind. The life...
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2016 NCAA Football Standings #1 – (post-Week 3)
Another year is another set of NCAA rankings. If you want to look at the methodology, it’s here. Basically we use point margins to determine opponent “strength”, and then use those to adjust win/loss...
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2016 NCAA Football Standings #2 – (post-Week 4)
One of the features of a model like this – where strength of schedule is being sorted out as results get added – is that the fluctuations will be very large now, and then get incrementally smaller....
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2016 NCAA Football Standings #3 – (post-Week 5)
Well, the USC-UCLA-Washington gauntlet ended with a thud for Stanford. After one week at the top, Stanford slips to #7. While there are other unbeaten teams below them, Stanford’s very tough schedule...
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2016 NCAA Football Standings #4 – (post-Week 6)
And so, #1 holds for the first time since we started this thing. Clemson trucks along as their wins over Troy and Auburn keep looking better, and Louisville’s profile goes up with Florida State’s win...
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2016 NCAA Football Standings #5 – (post-Week 7)
Well, Alabama and Ohio State did themselves good with high quality road wins. Tennessee clearly did not help themselves, although Alabama as a loss counts less. But the focus this week should be on...
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Re-Imagining the NASCAR Chase
It is rare that a Reddit post got me thinking – but as someone who is utterly fascinated by NASCAR’s difficulty settling on a proper championship playoff format, I was genuinely intrigued by this...
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2017 NCAA Bradley Terry Bracket
BASED ON CURRENT RATINGS (thru December 18 results) EAST v WEST, SOUTH v MIDWEST EAST REGION (New York, NY) Buffalo, NY (1) West Virginia v (16) Sam Houston/UC Irvine (8) Northwestern v (9) Clemson...
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2017 NCAA Bradley Terry Bracket #2 (thru December 22)
BASED ON CURRENT RATINGS: EAST v WEST, SOUTH v MIDWEST EAST REGION (New York, NY) Buffalo, NY (1) West Virginia v (16) Houston Baptist/UC-Irvine (8) Michigan v (9) Virginia Tech Salt Lake City, UT (4)...
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2017 NCAA Bradley Terry Bracket #3 (thru December 25)
BASED ON CURRENT RATINGS: EAST v WEST, SOUTH v MIDWEST EAST REGION (New York, NY) Buffalo, NY (1) West Virginia v (16) Houston Baptist/UC-Irvine (8) Michigan v (9) Virginia Tech Salt Lake City, UT (4)...
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2017 NCAA Bradley Terry Bracket #4 (thru January 1)
BASED ON CURRENT RATINGS: EAST v WEST, SOUTH v MIDWEST EAST REGION (New York, NY) Buffalo, NY (1) West Virginia v (16) UC-Irvine/Houston Baptist (8) Oregon v (9) Miami-FL Salt Lake City, UT (4)...
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Every #1 Song of the 1980s – Prologue and Series 1
With the start of a new year – and to do something besides sports ratings, I was inspired by the endeavor to rate every #1 song that was #1 on my birthday. Updating that list was an idea, but I would...
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2017 NCAA Bradley Terry Bracket #5 (thru January 8)
BASED ON CURRENT RATINGS: SOUTH v MIDWEST, EAST v WEST SOUTH REGION (Memphis, TN) Indianapolis, IN (1) Kentucky v (16) UC-Irvine/Houston Baptist (8) Clemson v (9) Dayton Salt Lake City, UT (4)...
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2017 NCAA Bradley Terry Bracket #6 (thru January 22)
BASED ON CURRENT RATINGS: SOUTH v MIDWEST, WEST v EAST SOUTH REGION (Memphis, TN) Indianapolis, IN (1) Kentucky v (16) Texas Southern/New Orleans (8) Oklahoma State v (9) Minnesota Salt Lake City, UT...
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