How good can a year end list really be if it doesn’t actually wait until the end of the year? What if I only discover something in December? What’s wrong with you people? I have a list of 11 albums for you this year. I wasn’t floored by a ton…

A Look at the Best Predictors in Pitching — In Baseball and Machine Learning Part 1, I outlined the methodology I had used in March to build 2021 MLB hitting projections using a combination of regression and classification algorithms. Then I lied to you. Horribly. I promised the pitching side of my project in “a week or so.” Oops…

A Stat-by-stat Look at the Best Predictors and a Quest to Predict the Outliers — Sports world personalities love to bash analytics these days. It’s hard to go five minutes listening to baseball talk on sports radio without hearing someone make a derogatory comment about “the nerds taking over.” Ironically, they then immediately launch into sports betting ads, and guess what, folks…any time you place…

Never have we needed music more than in 2020. Never have we seen a tougher environment for new music. The constant assault of this year on our collective sanity has made it substantially tougher than normal to focus on and appreciate art. Now imagine how much harder it has been…