Random Analysis on Sports,Reliability or whatever strikes my fancy. I did promise NCAA Player Metrics right? NBA Mid-Season Rankings and Report Cards. Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward .

Broken words from a broken man waiting to be redeemed. Databases, media reports, court documents, and other sources, Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration expert at the libertarian Cato Institute, has arrived. soil between 1975 and 2015. As for refugees, Nowrasteh writes.

On Being Jewish, Christian and Gay. Refusing to recognize what you know to be true about yourself because you fear the opinions of others is a recipe for complete self-deception and leads you on a road to nowhere. When Presumptions of Men Obscure the Truth of Scripture. According to the book of James, we all make many mistakes. Perhaps nowhere is that propensity toward human error more obvious than in the history of biblical interpretation. 8212; The Lord reigns, he is robed in majest.

A player rating that uses elements from the box score only. Weights for box score elements were found via regression onto rapm. Estimated Impact has much more predictive value than other popular box score metrics such as PER or Win Shares. NBA Non Prior Informed RAPM. A version of RAPM that uses information from previous seasons to increase stability and predictive accuracy.

A Quick, Bayesian Note on Deflate-Gate. Neil Paine wrote an article. Rounding up a bunch of the posts on the issue of if the Patriots. Are or have ever been Communists.

Thoughts on law, economics, and all things slightly geeky. And I started a podcast. However, this latitude does not permit a prosecutor to make false and factually unsupporte.

Taking aim at the lies and damned lies in sports with stories written by the numbers. More on my story at Time. A Letter from the United States to England in 1776. A bit of history that should make the Fourth of July better.

For Jose Calderon or Darren Collison. Having missed on both, I was pretty doom-and-gloom regarding the Pistons point guard situation. But then, the Pistons brought back Chauncey Billups and Will Bynum. All of a sudden, my mood has upgraded to mildly optimistic.