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statistics

The Lord Knows the Score

Thursday September 4, 2008

Every year around this time I get to enjoy one of my all-time favorite acronyms. (You know I’m an acronymphomaniac, right?) All of the important data utilized by the National Football League is stored in the “Game Statistics & Information System” — GSIS. As far as the NFL is concerned, GSIS is awesome and GSIS [...]

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Fortune’s Formula

Monday April 2, 2007

I am not even 100 pages into my latest William Poundstone book and I already know it’s going to be a favorite. Fortune’s Formula, The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street is the fourth Poundstone book I’ve read. The man is a genius of a writer. Labyrinths [...]

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Alexa Is Skewed

Friday March 9, 2007

I’ve often wondered how Alexa manages to get its data. Their stats never seem to synch with mine. It turns out there’s a fly in the ointment over there.

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Software

Thursday November 8, 2001

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SEC

Monday October 1, 2001

Southeastern Conference Statistics

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Slim Shady

Wednesday August 15, 2001

How incredible is this? I just reached into a 14 oz bag of M&M’s without looking and grabbed five green ones. Five. All the same color. Crazy.

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