Blog

2023 Reading List
Books I read in 2023
Personal
2023 NHL Playoff Predictions
Who will win this year's cup?
Misc
2022 Reading List
Books I read in 2022
Personal
A hierarchical model for hockey scoring
Just how lucky have the 18-3 Bruins gotten?
Misc
Accessing Public Baseball Data in Julia
Interoperability is the name of the game
Baseball
2021 Reading List
Books I read in 2021
Personal
Tyler Burch, Baseball Analyst
I got a job!
Baseball
2020 Reading List
Books I read in 2020
Personal
Box Score Thoughts: Tempering Run Expectations from Hits
Revisiting some old work, and handling some heteroscadasticity
Baseball
Gauging Home-field Advantage in 2020
Using a Bayesian GLM in order to see if a lack of fans translates to a lack of home-field advantage
Baseball
Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Golf Percentages
An analytical solution plus some plots in R (yes, you read that right, R)
Misc
Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Astrophysical Signals
okay... I made a small mistake
Misc
Classifying MLB Hit Outcomes - Part 4: Application and Reflection
Creating a practical application for the hit classifier (along with some reflections on the model development)
Baseball
Classifying MLB Hit Outcomes - Part 3: Studying Re-sampling Methods
Diving into resampling to sort out a very imbalanced class problem
Baseball
Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Can You Find The Fish In State Names?
Or, 'how I learned the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'
Misc
Classifying MLB Hit Outcomes - Part 2: Optimization
Amping up the hit outcome model with feature engineering and hyperparameter optimization
Baseball
Classifying MLB Hit Outcomes - Part 1: Model Selection
Can we classify the outcome of a baseball hit based on the hit kinematics?
Baseball
Dissertation Progress and Defense
Updates on my PhD dissertation progress and defense
Physics
Bread!
My bread baking adventures and favorite recipes
Personal
Applying to Work in MLB Front Offices - My Experience
A summary of my experience applying to work in MLB Front Offices over the 2019-2020 offseason
Baseball
2019 Reading List
Books I read in 2019
Personal
Fivethirtyeight Riddler: How Low Can You Roll?
Busting out the trusty random number generator
Misc
Astros 2017 K% Change
Perhaps we're being a bit hyperbolic
Baseball
Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Which Baseball Team Will Win The Riddler Fall Classic?
Revisiting more fake-baseball for 538
Misc
Evaluating Lance Lynn's Unexpected 2019
A deep-dive into Lance Lynn's recent dominance
Baseball
2015-2016 Di-Higgs Combination
Fresh-off-the-press Higgs results!
Physics
Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Can The Riddler Bros. Beat Joe DiMaggio’s Hitting Streak?
How do theoretical players stack up against Joe Dimaggio?
Misc
Pheno2019 - ATLAS Searches for VH/HH Resonances
I went to Pittsburgh to talk Higgs
Physics
Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Can You Turn America’s Pastime Into A Game Of Yahtzee?
If baseball isn't random enough, let's make it into a dice game
Misc
2019 Random Visualizations
Random one-off visualizations from 2019
Personal
2018 Reading List
Books I read in 2018
Personal
US LHC Users Association 2018 - Why do we care about di-Higgs Production?
Or: how to summarize a PhD's worth of work in 8 minutes
Physics
Double Higgs Production at Colliders Workshop - VBF HH Generation and Benchmarks
Double the Higgs, double the fun!
Physics
2018 Reddit /r/Baseball Trade Deadline Game Statistics
A data-driven summary of the 2018 Reddit /r/Baseball Trade Deadline Game
Misc
Is Tommy Pham Fixed?
A 2017 player analysis of Tommy Pham
Baseball