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2025 MLB Win Projections

We have designed and implemented a new machine learning model that projects the total number of wins for each team in a given season. We will update this each day. As of: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 Team Projected Wins (+/-4 Wins) Philadelphia Phillies 95 Milwaukee Brewers 92 Boston Red Sox 90 Los Angeles Dodgers 89 […]

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Basketball Data Science Mathematics NBA Sports Statistics

NBA 2024-2025 Win Predictions

Below, are the predicted NBA team wins for the 2024-2025 seasons (within a margin of error of +/- 5 wins) based on our novel ML algorithm to predict team wins. We collected over 20 years of NBA team data and applied advanced nonparametric, nonlinear models to uncover the relationship between various performance indicators and a […]

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No Such Thing as The “Greatest” Player in The NBA

Below, we demonstrate why trying to identify a single player as the “Greatest of all time” is a fallacy.

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Data Analytics Data Science Mathematics Physics Statistics

Relating the Ridge and Lasso to Physics

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Movie and TV Show Recommender

Using a lot of data wrangling and NLP, I created a movie and tv show recommender: Basically, the user selects from the drop-down list their movie/tv show of interest, and the algorithm will recommend a combination of movies and tv shows that the user is most likely to be interested in. I tried to include […]

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Deriving Least Squares Coefficients Using Tensor/Index Notation

Many textbooks when introducing ordinary least squares as a method to do regression (usually via introducing linear regression) don’t explain / derive the coefficients. Here, I explain how to do it using tensor/index notation.

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Movie Sentiment Tracker

I wrote an extensive application using NLP and TensorFlow/Keras in Python that looks at all of the current and upcoming Hollywood releases for 2020 and tracks the online Twitter sentiment for each of them. The model output was then displayed in a PowerBI dashboard. In essence, we are predicting the classification probability . You can […]

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Basketball Mathematics NBA Sports Statistics

A Problem With Offensive Rating

Abstract: It is shown that the standard/common definition of team offensive rating/offensive efficiency implies that a team’s offensive rating increases as its opponent’s offensive rebounds increase, which, in principle, should not be the case. Over the past number of years, theย advanced metric known as Offensive Rating has become the standard way of measuring a basketball […]

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NBA Analytics Dashboard

Here is an embedded dashboard that shows a number of statistical insights for NBA teams, their opponents, and individual players as well. You can compare multiple teams and players. Navigate throughย  the different pages by clicking through the scrolling arrow below. (The data is based on the most recent season “per-game” numbers.) (If you cannot […]

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Basketball Data Analytics Data Science Mathematics NBA NBA Finals NBA Playoffs Sports Statistics

How to Beat the Golden State Warriors

By: Dr. Ikjyot Singh Kohli The Golden State Warriors have posed quite the conundrum for opposing teams. They are quick, have a spectacular ability to move the ball, and play suffocating defense. Given their play in the playoffs thus far, all of these points have been exemplified even more to the point where it seems […]