Entries Tagged as 'statistics'

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Box Scores Are Web 1.0?

Box Scores – web 1.0? Thats’s the case according to this recent Fortune Magazine article.
The replacement is the Winning Probabilty Added graph or WPA. From the Kansas City Star:
The concept of WPA has been around for almost 40 years. But the stat caught fire on the Web after the publication of last year’s [...]

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Don’t Be Sorry – Bet On Baseball

A new season of baseball is upon us and in it’s honor I’ve rounded up a list of some nice sites to help you to win more of your baseball wagers.

Sportscapperisland.com offers 5 reasons to bet on baseball. From my experience #3 is right on the money:
3. Out of all sports, baseball is [...]

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

IBM’s Many Eyes Project Seeks Sports Statistics Freaks

“When the sports statistic freaks find us, that will be nuts…and very cool.”
–Matt McKeon, developer, Many Eyes
News.com has an interesting article about the IBM “Many Eyes” project. Basically, it’s a way that anyone can upload data and create visualizations of the data using various templates created by the folks at IBM. The [...]

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Game Theory Genius Talks Gambling At Google – Free Video

I liked this video. Guys like this are great for lifting up the image of sports betting and making it more respectable in mainstream society. Way to go Google!
Dr. Mike Orkin is a Managing Scientist at Exponent, a publicly traded scientific consulting company headquartered in Menlo Park. Mike has numerous research publications in game [...]