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Author: Ahmed Cheema

College Basketball, Other

March Madness 2023: Tournament Simulation Results

Posted onMarch 15, 2023March 16, 2023

We simulated 10,000 iterations of March Madness. Here’s what happened.

College Basketball, Other

March Madness 2023: Forecasting the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament

Posted onMarch 15, 2023March 16, 2023

That’s right – it’s time to model March Madness! For the fourth year, we’ll be predicting the outcome of the Big Dance.

NBA

Schadenfreude: Which NBA Teams’ Losses Drew the Most Attention?

Posted onApril 17, 2022April 17, 2022

Using data from the social media site Reddit, we determine which teams NBA fans most enjoy seeing suffer defeat.

College Basketball, Other

March Madness 2022: Tournament Simulation Results

Posted onMarch 15, 2022March 16, 2022

We use our predictive March Madness model to simulate 10,000 iterations of the tournament. Here’s what we found.

College Basketball, Other

March Madness 2022: Modeling the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament

Posted onMarch 14, 2022March 15, 2022

It’s that time of the year – we’re creating a new model using detailed data from the past thirteen tournaments to predict March Madness 2022.

NBA

Mathematically Optimizing an NBA Player Guessing Game

Posted onMarch 2, 2022March 3, 2022

An NBA variant of the trendy game “Wordle” has become popular among fans. In this article, I find an optimal strategy for winning “Poeltl.”

NBA

The Next Great Portland Guard Has Arrived

Posted onFebruary 25, 2022March 3, 2022

With Damian Lillard injured and CJ McCollum traded away, Anfernee Simons has given Portland fans a reason to be optimistic for the future.

NFL

PRYA: Modeling NFL Punt Returns for Player Evaluation

Posted onFebruary 5, 2022February 5, 2022

What can tracking data tell us about punt returns? We introduce the evaluation metric Punt Return Yards Added (PRYA) for returners & gunners.

Other

Quantifying the In-Game Impact of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Players

Posted onFebruary 4, 2022February 6, 2022

We use regularization in the form of ridge regression to evaluate professional players of the game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

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