John PentakalosIdeas on NBA BetsAs long as I’ve been interested in following sports, I’ve been very into the idea of sports betting. I’ll be the first to admit it’s not…Dec 10, 2020Dec 10, 2020
John PentakalosHow good is your team at drafting?I don’t know that there’s a definitive way to truly evaluate drafting skill, there’s too many contextual factors (e.g. team needs…Jun 4, 2020Jun 4, 2020
John PentakalosNFL Draft Pick ValueI’m trying to re frame draft evaluations on the marginal value when compared to expected value of the pick position. There’s a surprising…Jun 1, 2020Jun 1, 2020
John PentakalosNFL Draft EvaluationsPart 1 of my quest to prove Ryan Grigson and Bruce Allen are the worst GMs in recent NFL historyMay 31, 2020May 31, 2020
John PentakalosGuns, Germs, and Steel (part 2)If you want the short version of this book, you can trace pretty much every later societal development back to farming. Farming allowed…May 27, 2020May 27, 2020
John PentakalosSometMy solution for the 538 Riddle of the week.Ohio is the only state whose name doesn’t share any letters with the word “mackerel.” It’s strange, but it’s true.May 24, 2020May 24, 2020
John PentakalosTrying to make sense of EconMLIn their own words: EconML “is a toolkit designed to measure the causal effect of some treatment variable (T) on an outcome variable Y…May 21, 2020May 21, 2020
John PentakalosGuns, Germs, and Steel Notes (Part I)Guns, Germs, and Steel is centered around answering one question: “Why did wealth and power become distributed as they are, as opposed to…May 19, 2020May 19, 2020
John PentakalosRolling Dice the Right Wayhttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-you-find-the-best-dungeons-dragons-strategy/May 18, 2020May 18, 2020
