My baseball win expectancy finder got mentioned in an article on the Washington Post!

The baseball playoffs are almost upon us, and now Baseball Odds can help you keep track of how likely your team is to win on your Windows 10 device!


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10 years ago(!) I published a win expectancy finder. Now I went back and spruced it up - check it out here! In addition to being more spruced, you can pick a range of years to include, and it also shows you the leverage index. (a measure of how important the current situation is)

I'm having one of those days (really, one of those "last few days") where things are going very well (codewise). I left work yesterday with a mysterious problem, and solved it quickly this morning (my idea of what the problem was was right on, just needed a little more tweaking), which is always a good feeling. Also, I had a large mocha this ( Read more... )

So djedi and I were home this last weekend to celebrate birthdays and other things. I had a good time - it was good to get to see my family again. The downside is that Carrie got me hooked on Lost, and I spent too much time this morning looking at lostpedia.com to find out more stuff I missed. Maybe I'll watch it next year ( Read more... )

So I had a good weekend. The plan for the weekend was to see "Wicked" in Houston on Friday, visit Vickie and Mae-Mae (sp?) (some kids that David homeschooled a while ago) on Saturday, and go to the Renaissance Festival on Sunday. Mission accomplished ( Read more... )

Wow...the weekend did not treat the Astros well. Down 2-0 isn't horrible, though, especially because they're coming home. And Berkman has had two good games, which is promising. The walk-off home run last night hurt, but not nearly as bad as the Pujols one. I'm mostly just happy they made it here at this point. (although I do hope they win a ( Read more... )

Hooray!

My nervous energy yesterday launched me into a new project. It started when I read the Crawfish Boxes (an Astros blog that is part of a network started by the founder of Daily Kos) after the 18 inning Game 4 of the Atlanta series. They talked about how amazing the game was, and talked about WPA, which after reading a link to the Hardball ( Read more... )