Articles

Goalie evaluation:

• New techniques for evaluating goaltenders in hockey [2015-10-29]

• Should we consider shorthanded stats when evaluating goalies? [2016-05-31]

• The best and worst goalie playoffs of the last decade [2016-06-16]

• NHL skater and goalie projections 2016-17 [2016-09-17]

• Code and tutorial on how I modeled goalies [2016-09-29]

• Gathering hockey data with cacheblob [2016-11-05]

• Summary of my VanHAC talk [2017-03-16]

Hockey Hall of Fame:

• Who got in, who shouldn’t have, who will, and why [2017-04-19]

• 5 additions and subtractions to NHL’s 100 greatest list [2017-04-26]

• On complexity and overfit in hockey models [2017-05-06]

• The Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018, 2019, and beyond [2018-07-04]

• Hockey Hall of Fame 2019 review and 2020 forecast [2019-08-16]

• Looking at the past and future of the hall [2022-07-06]

Fantasy Hockey Pools:

• Hockey Pool Part 1: Getting my head around the problem [2015-08-23]

• Hockey Pool Part 2: From the draft through the playoffs [2015-08-25]

• Hockey Pool Part 3: Models and draft strategy [2015-08-26]

• Hockey Pool Part 4: Season wrap-up [2016-04-19]

Basketball:

• How to bring the world’s best tournament to the world’s top basketball league [2015-09-07]

• Building new player and game-level models to project wins for every team [2016-10-23]

• Adapting my NBA season model for 2017-18 [2017-10-16]

• Adapting my NBA season model for 2018-19 [2018-10-16]

• Looking at how my NBA playoff model performed in 2018-19 [2019-06-14]

• Adapting my NBA season model for 2019-20 [2019-10-20]

Other:

• I built a film recommendation engine, and now you can too [2016-01-16]

• A worrisome oversight in Venmo authentication [2016-04-30]

• A visual tour of my first month in SF [2016-05-06]

• On SQL, SQL coding practices, and making life easier [2016-10-11]

• How should we evaluate probabilistic forecasts? [2019-02-08]