Thursday, May 30, 2013

Evaluating the Moneyball draft eleven years later.
Part 1: Making the majors or not

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Michael Lewis' book Moneyball concentrated on the Oakland A's in 2002, more on the front office than on the players on the field...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Virginia governor's race:
McAuliffe(D) vs. Cuccinelli(R)
Update #2

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Polling is still scarce on the governor's race in Virginia, which is as it should be since the election is in November. A new poll ca...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

2013 NBA Playoffs predictions:
Grade after the Spurs-Grizzlies series

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The Western Conference final series is now over, concluded quickly as the San Antonio Spurs swept the Memphis Grizzlies in four games. No ...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Permutations and Euler's Triangle

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Let us assume the object we are arranging in our permutation have some natural order. For example, if we are using the first five letters o...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

permutations and factorials

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A permutation is an arrangement of n distinct objects where order matters. For example, if you have a deck with n cards, all the permutat...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

2013 NBA Playoff predictions:
Grading ESPN's experts

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The National Basketball Association, the NBA for short, has a knockout tournament among the season's top eight clubs from each of the ...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Massachusetts Senate Race:
Markey(D) vs. Gomez(R)
Update #2

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A new poll has been taken for the Massachusetts senate race and Democrat Ed Markey continues to lead. This poll was taken on May 15 and t...