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…4 min read·Dec 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…3 min read·Jun 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…3 min read·Jun 1, 2020----
John PentakalosNFL Draft EvaluationsPart 1 of my quest to prove Ryan Grigson and Bruce Allen are the worst GMs in recent NFL history3 min read·May 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…5 min read·May 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.2 min read·May 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…2 min read·May 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…3 min read·May 19, 2020----
John PentakalosRolling Dice the Right Wayhttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-you-find-the-best-dungeons-dragons-strategy/2 min read·May 18, 2020----