Josh YazmanHe Who Puts the Team On Their BackOne of the more common criteria for judging the greatness of basketball players is to simply ask who has the most championship rings. It’s…Jun 10, 2018Jun 10, 2018
Josh YazmanMeasuring the MadnessUMBC’s historic and dominant upset of UVA in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament instantly made a case that 2018…Mar 31, 2018Mar 31, 2018
Josh YazmanPredicting Charitable Contributions with Gradient Tree BoostingExcessive overhead spending has long been seen as a cardinal sin for charitable organizations. Money spent on corporate salaries and donor…Feb 22, 2018Feb 22, 2018
Josh YazmaninTowards Data ScienceUsing Linear Regression to Model Point Spreads in College BasketballIt stands to reason that the easiest way to predict who will win a college basketball game is to predict who will score more points…Jan 27, 20181Jan 27, 20181
Josh YazmanA Pair of Text Analysis ExplorationsAfter about a year of learning text analysis techniques from Text Mining with R (Silge and Robinson 2017) I had two big questions that I…Dec 23, 2017Dec 23, 2017
Josh YazmanCluster Analysis of Players in Division I Men’s College Basketball TeamsBasketball teams are teams for a reason. Some players are great pure shooters and others are stronger defensive players. Thousands of…Dec 17, 2017Dec 17, 2017
Josh YazmanAttempting to Replicate Ariely’s Anchoring BiasOne of the earliest times I remember being interested in studying human behavior was watching a PBS documentary called Mind Over Money. The…Nov 30, 2017Nov 30, 2017
Josh YazmanWhen Can I Start Relying on Basketball Stats?One challenge in predicting basketball outcomes is the unpredictability inherent in college sports. Players get injured or suspended, teams…Nov 10, 2017Nov 10, 2017