About three years ago I took up tennis. I did it so I could play with my kids who were playing in junior leagues. They have put their racquets down but I continue to play about three times a week. I play out of the Piedmont Park Tennis Center. One of the pros there, Lavie Sak […]
Continue reading →Yesterday afternoon Indiana University rallied from five points down in the final minute to win the Big Ten title, most likely securing a number one seed in the NCAA tournament. As a duel alumni household the Weatherby's are pretty fired up about basketball. Fourth ranked Louisville being favored to win the Big East tournament makes it doubly […]
Continue reading →The city of Atlanta is hosting its first ever NFC Championship today. The hometown Falcons are a 4.5 underdog. You have to go back over thirty years to find a number one seed so heavily favored to lose. The Falcons get no respect. They got no respect late in the season when they had the […]
Continue reading →As a pretty big football fan one of the highlights for me of SEVC was Thomas Dimitroff's luncheon keynote speech. The focus of his talk was on the importance of team, which I thought to be most a propos, as a good cohesive team is important to success on both the gridiron and in the startup […]
Continue reading →Last year I wrote about Logistic Regression Markov Chain (LMRC). LMRC is a Markov Chain that is purpose built as a college basketball ranking system based on basic scoreboard data. LMRC is a tool to that can be used to help you fill out your NCAA basketball tournament bracket. LRMC was created by Dr. Joel […]
Continue reading →Tonight the New York Yankees will play their final game in 85 year old Yankee Stadium before moving across the street to the "New" Yankee Stadium. I am sure that mainstream media will be reporting on the most famous moments at Yankee Stadium. Gehrig’s "Luckest main alive" speech, Larsen’s perfect game, too many Reggie Jackson […]
Continue reading →What is Logistic Regression Markov Chain (LMRC) you may ask? It is a tool that can be used to help with selecting and seeding the NCAA Tournament field. Or if the NCAA does not want to use it for that perhaps you can use it to win your office pool. According to this article LRMC […]
Continue reading →I met my wife at Indiana University.
Continue reading →Sunday started with a bang for me with a flag football game partially played in Piedmont Park (site of the first Auburn/Georgia football game played in 1892 that kicked off the oldest football rivalry in the South.) The black team beat the red team 77 – 56. Like most football games the outcome was determined […]
Continue reading →Over the weekend I finished reading The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. I purchased the book last year and let it sit until the heart of the football season. After you read it you will never watch a football game in the same way again. The book is two intertwined stories. […]
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