No team can struggle in 2026 because they use analytics because everyone does. They may struggle because they used analytics *poorly* but not for the simple fact they use analytics.

Fuck RFK jr!

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Heading to UConn on April 10–11 to lead a tracking data workshop at the Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium (CSAS) 2026.

The workshop will focus on unsupervised learning with tracking data, featuring a case study of clustering pre-snap motion in 🏈.

Register now! statds.org/events/csas2026

We're currently going through something called "Program array review". I have a lot of thoughts on this that I will not share publicly.

They are the CEO of a non-profit.

Not that much lower!

So the college basketball coach model.

I genuinely wonder what the fuck the people who are in charge of universities think universities are? Like in their mind, what do they believe is the point?

@statsinthewild.bsky.social

I like to distract myself from the terrifying political news by reading the ridiculous political news.

"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

Hegseth strikes deal with Scouts: Girls allowed for now, DEI is banned In announcing the Pentagon’s agreement with Scouting America, the defense secretary assailed the group for welcoming transgender children but stopped short of saying they would be denied entry.

At least we know in the hours before the attack Hegseth was laser focused on keeping Americans safe

Get Your War On by David Rees

Time is a flat circle

happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

A Markovian model for football penalty shootout This paper introduces a Markov transition model to analyse the kick-first effects on a football penalty shootout. Two different penalty shootout rules are considered, the ABAB rule currently used i...

A Markovian model for football penalty shootout www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

I'll never change.

The cauchy distribution keeps me up at night.

a spiral of tiny needle like leaves against a dark background, arranged in a spiral pattern with a naturalistic strew of mess around it

i am mortified. i've been writing art code in #rstats for several years now and it was only yesterday that i realised how useful the cauchy distribution is if you want the untidiness in an image to feel naturalistic

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

I'll never fucking change!

I fucking love that Wendy's.

What? This is such a dumb thesis.

Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

I thought i was gonna pass out for the first 6 innings of that game. Holy shit it was hot.

Was this also the game you stole a bobble head from a kid? Or was that a different game?

Fascism is here. 🇺🇸
CBS is dead. ☠️

More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is