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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),...

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Yes, 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...

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What’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...

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Wrestling 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...

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Coaches 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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