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Comment on 1879-87 Chicago White Stockings: Hall of Fame Library Notes by 1879 Chicago White Stockings Notes, from Chicago Tribune and Times « The Summer of Jeff

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:20:32 +0000

[...] Since I’ve abandoned my 19th-century baseball research, I hope this can be useful to someone. See also my file of 1879 White Stockings box scores and my 1879-87 White Stockings notes from the Hall of Fame Library. [...]

Comment on 1879 Chicago White Stockings Box Scores by 1879-87 Chicago White Stockings: Hall of Fame Library Notes « The Summer of Jeff

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:39:44 +0000

[...] Since I’ve abandoned my 19th-century baseball research, I hope this can be useful to someone. See also my file of 1879 White Stockings box scores. [...]

Comment on The Prevalence of Lefties in Men’s Tennis by Lefties in Tennis: Doubles and Prize Money « The Summer of Jeff

Lefties in Tennis: Doubles and Prize Money « The Summer of Jeff — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:04:04 +0000

[...] Posted in tennis by Jeff on February 16, 2011 A few days ago, I offered some numbers on the prevalence of lefties in men’s tennis. It turned out that, in the top 300 of the ATP singles rankings, lefties don’t show up much [...]

Comment on 2011 Aussie Open Simulation Results by The Wild Card Effect « The Summer of Jeff

The Wild Card Effect « The Summer of Jeff — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:08:51 +0000

[...] As he was a local and a wild card, we now know to adjust his ranking points twice before estimating his likelihood of winning a match. Instead of estimating his talent with his pre-tourney ranking point total of 239, we adjust upward to 435. That still puts him as an underdog against Chardy’s 960 points, but it means we would have given him a 30% chance of winning instead of an 18% chance. [...]

Comment on Tennis Home Court – Research Notes by The Wild Card Effect « The Summer of Jeff

The Wild Card Effect « The Summer of Jeff — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:08:48 +0000

[...] testing the hypothesis, I controlled for home court advantage, an important consideration that is easily conflated with the wild card effect. After all, a [...]

Comment on 2011 Aussie Open Simulation Results by Tennis Home Court – Research Notes « The Summer of Jeff

Tennis Home Court – Research Notes « The Summer of Jeff — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:48:47 +0000

[...] to someone with 1,305 ranking points, which would be 32nd in the world. Instead of giving him a 36% chance of winning his first round match against David Nalbandian, the home-court-adjusted number would [...]

Comment on Python Code for Tennis Markov by Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:20:43 +0000

I use IDLE, which is part of the standard python download. I’m easy to please, though.

Comment on Python Code for Tennis Markov by Mr. Red

Mr. Red — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:29:37 +0000

I’ve started messing around with Python after your recommendation in “Python for baseball.” However, I can’t seem to find a free Python IDE that I really like. What do you use?

Thanks,
Mr. Red

Comment on Python Code for Tennis Markov by David Pinto

David Pinto — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:42:44 +0000

I’m glad to see someone else doing sports research in Python!

Comment on Ivo Karlovic and the Inevitable Tiebreak by Isner Loses on Points, Wins Match…Again « The Summer of Jeff

Isner Loses on Points, Wins Match…Again « The Summer of Jeff — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:22:00 +0000

[...] this and the staggering numbers of tiebreaks played by the likes of Isner and Ivo Karlovic, it really seems like the tallest guys are playing a [...]