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Ray CarpenterDigging up football data visualizations
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Man vs. Model - NFL Week 7 Edition
Good morning everyone,
As promised, here’s a new segment I’m calling man vs. model. I built a logistic regression Markov chain (LRMC) model to rank all 32 NFL teams weekly that you can find here. Each game margin, after home field advanta...
Flowers for Brian Flores
Hello to the 6 new subscribers to The Spade who have joined since last week’s write-up on advanced coin toss analytics. Join 664 other analytically inclined football fans today for completely free by signing up to receive these directly in...
TransferPortl Intelligence: Week 8 Edition
Portal predictions, value movements, programs to watch, and mroe
Good morning everyone,
Advanced NFL Coin Toss Analytics
And teams are electing to receive the ball now?
Hello to the 11 new subscribers to The Spade who have joined since last week’s write-up on my first batch of 2027 transfer portal predictions. Join 658 other analytically inclined football fa...
The First Batch of Transfer Portal Predictions
Hello to the 12 new subscribers to The Spade who have joined since last week’s write-up on Ancient EPAliens. Join 647 other analytically inclined football fans today for completely free by signing up to receive these directly in your email...
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