Blog All Posts Baseball Misc Personal Physics 2023 Reading List Books I read in 2023 December 29, 2023 Personal 2023 NHL Playoff Predictions Who will win this year's cup? April 30, 2023 Misc 2022 Reading List Books I read in 2022 December 31, 2022 Personal A hierarchical model for hockey scoring Just how lucky have the 18-3 Bruins gotten? November 26, 2022 Misc Accessing Public Baseball Data in Julia Interoperability is the name of the game January 13, 2022 Baseball 2021 Reading List Books I read in 2021 December 31, 2021 Personal Tyler Burch, Baseball Analyst I got a job! January 25, 2021 Baseball 2020 Reading List Books I read in 2020 December 31, 2020 Personal Box Score Thoughts: Tempering Run Expectations from Hits Revisiting some old work, and handling some heteroscadasticity November 13, 2020 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 October 28, 2020 Baseball Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Golf Percentages An analytical solution plus some plots in R (yes, you read that right, R) September 25, 2020 Misc Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Astrophysical Signals okay... I made a small mistake August 21, 2020 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) July 25, 2020 Baseball Classifying MLB Hit Outcomes - Part 3: Studying Re-sampling Methods Diving into resampling to sort out a very imbalanced class problem July 12, 2020 Baseball Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Can You Find The Fish In State Names? Or, 'how I learned the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' May 22, 2020 Misc Classifying MLB Hit Outcomes - Part 2: Optimization Amping up the hit outcome model with feature engineering and hyperparameter optimization May 09, 2020 Baseball Classifying MLB Hit Outcomes - Part 1: Model Selection Can we classify the outcome of a baseball hit based on the hit kinematics? April 21, 2020 Baseball Dissertation Progress and Defense Updates on my PhD dissertation progress and defense April 04, 2020 Physics Bread! My bread baking adventures and favorite recipes April 01, 2020 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 January 27, 2020 Baseball 2019 Reading List Books I read in 2019 December 31, 2019 Personal Fivethirtyeight Riddler: How Low Can You Roll? Busting out the trusty random number generator November 15, 2019 Misc Astros 2017 K% Change Perhaps we're being a bit hyperbolic November 14, 2019 Baseball Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Which Baseball Team Will Win The Riddler Fall Classic? Revisiting more fake-baseball for 538 September 27, 2019 Misc Evaluating Lance Lynn's Unexpected 2019 A deep-dive into Lance Lynn's recent dominance June 14, 2019 Baseball 2015-2016 Di-Higgs Combination Fresh-off-the-press Higgs results! June 05, 2019 Physics Fivethirtyeight Riddler: Can The Riddler Bros. Beat Joe DiMaggio’s Hitting Streak? How do theoretical players stack up against Joe Dimaggio? May 12, 2019 Misc Pheno2019 - ATLAS Searches for VH/HH Resonances I went to Pittsburgh to talk Higgs May 09, 2019 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 March 29, 2019 Misc 2019 Random Visualizations Random one-off visualizations from 2019 January 01, 2019 Personal 2018 Reading List Books I read in 2018 December 31, 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 October 26, 2018 Physics Double Higgs Production at Colliders Workshop - VBF HH Generation and Benchmarks Double the Higgs, double the fun! September 07, 2018 Physics 2018 Reddit /r/Baseball Trade Deadline Game Statistics A data-driven summary of the 2018 Reddit /r/Baseball Trade Deadline Game July 26, 2018 Misc Is Tommy Pham Fixed? A 2017 player analysis of Tommy Pham July 07, 2017 Baseball