Punch Drunk Wolves

Tag: analytics

  • Learning from The Machine: Some Observations about Past Timberwolves Draft Picks

    I recently read an interesting paper, entitled “Profiting from Machine Learning in the NBA Draft (paper available here).” The author of the paper is Philip Maymin, Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering at the NYU School of Engineering. Maymin has…

  • “Why do I care?”

    “Why do I care?” is the single most hazardous question that a diehard NBA fan can ask himself. “Junkies” like me, and those I surmise to be a large percentage of this blog’s readership, devote considerable time and energy to…