Adjusting Priors in Science, Basketball, and Life
The following is from Allan Maymin, Philip Maymin, and Eugene Shen. This trio recently published “How Much Trouble is Early Foul Trouble?” (International Journal of Sport Finance 7:4 (2012),...
View ArticleYes, the Olympics is a business
Image credit: MatthiasKabel I was shocked when I read that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that it will drop wrestling from the summer Olympics after the 2016. There are two types...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Wins Produced?
Last February, Neil Barofsky, the former Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), published a book (Bailout-How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall...
View ArticleWrestling wrestled with the IOC (and lost)
Image credit: laughzilla.com Earlier this year, I wrote about the IOC’s decision to remove wrestling from the list of Olympic sports. This is good news for wrestling fans, then: wrestling — along...
View ArticleCoaches are interchangeable in the NFL, too
Firing these guys probably didn’t change anything Add football to the list of sports where coaches appear to be interchangeable. Brian Burke has written a post where he argues that randomness and...
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