So I was chatting in a Clubhouse room the other day and someone said the craziest thing… (BTW I love me my Clubhouse) He said that he had read somewhere that there was actually no home field advantage in football (soccer). There may be some tilting in results toward home teams, but… p-values… not statistically significant… yadayada… This I found […]
Sometimes you can’t just Python to Python. Hopefully you’re studying Python (or another computing language) because it connects to the way you think in some way. But you shouldn’t always Python just to Python. There needs to be something more. Python is a language, like any other language you would study. It can be very frustrating. You look at some […]
Pythagorean expectation, attributed to baseball statistician Bill James is a formula originally used to describe a relationship between the number of runs a baseball team scores and allows, and the team’s winning percentage. The basic formula is… Winning Percentage = (Runs Scored)2/((Runs Scored)2 + (Runs Allowed)2) For example1 , the 2002 New York Yankees scored 897 runs and allowed 697. […]
Even though none of us outside of Santa Cruz could watch it live, Masters Cup caused some interesting movement in my world famous power rankings. (If you are a data science type, I used some beautiful soup, pandas, SQL… y’know. Stuff like that. And, no, I didn’t use them well. I tried though. You can check out what all I […]
Big weekend in disc golf. US Women’s Championships for the women, and watching the US Women’s Championships for the men. Some definite movement in my most glorious of power rankings. (If you are a data science type, I used some beautiful soup, pandas, SQL… y’know. Stuff like that. And, no, I didn’t use them well. I tried though. You can […]
And we are back. After a weekend where most of top players were out in Stockton for the OTB Open, there is some movement in the top tens, but nothing too wild. (If you are a data science type, I used some beautiful soup, pandas, SQL… y’know. Stuff like that. And, no, I didn’t use them well. I tried though. […]
(Data Science people: I did this with pandas and SQL in a Jupyter notebook. You can take a look at my github. It ain’t pretty though. The graphs below were matplotlib) (All data used in creating these rankings is publically available at pdga.com) Disc Golf Fans… It was a weekend where the best in the land were spread out across […]
Man I learned a lot doing this project. So… more stuff I learned (or re-learned), when making my disc golf power rankings happen (part 1 is here)… So I have a list of lists, how do I get the name of list instead of its contents? So, for some reason I wanted to make a list of lists of the […]
Ok. Maybe that’s a disingenuous title. Basically I sat in the darkness of my apartment, while my girlfriend wondered what was wrong with me, and typed stuff into a jupyter notebook. Then I commented that out and typed something else. Then I gave my screen a dirty look. Then I realized I typed a period instead of an underscore. Repeat. […]
Cornhole, the sport of midwestern American tailgaters, has arrived in Cambodia, kinda. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, meaning you’re in that 80% of my two-person readership [Haven’t gotten to stats yet in my Coursera classes], check out https://www.playcornhole.org/pages/rules for info about the glorious sport of cornhole.) A bar I frequent now has some boards that are getting […]