Dept of Stat and Data Sci at @Yale. Formerly @CMU_Stats, @ESPN, @univmiami, @FlaPanthers, @WestPoint_USMA. data science/statistics/education/sports/ice cream.

Joined July 2012
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One of the wildest stats in sports: This is the 46TH CONSECUTIVE SEASON in which a former teammate of Jaromir Jagr has appeared in the Stanley Cup Final. This year, it's Golden Knights defenseman Rasmus Andersson, who played with Jágr in Calgary in 2017-18.
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Interesting storyline for NHL Finals: Carolina Hurricanes GM Eric Tulsky has a PhD in Chemistry from Berkeley. Before joining them in 2014, he was offered a job with Apple to work on battery tech (but turned it down). Started in the analytics department and since hired neuroscientists and mechanical engineers for the NHL team. The Athletic profile has this anecdote: ➡️ “In 2021, Tulsky was the Carolina Hurricanes assistant GM and had built a small analytics department in the organization, with a web developer, a data engineer and a neuroscientist helping him lead the team’s push into new frontiers for the sport. But because of what he saw in the tracking data, Tulsky believed his next addition needed to be someone who was working on autonomous vehicles — perhaps “a robot submarine,” he says now — and had an advanced mechanical engineering background. “I knew that that was the kind of problem that put people thinking about the kinds of data that we had and the kinds of problems we faced,” Tulsky explained. It goes without saying that there aren’t many robot submarine engineers working in NHL front offices. So Tulsky began a deep search through universities’ mechanical engineering departments. He would scour the faculty listing and professors’ research interests to see if they might align with what he was looking for, then reach out to learn more about their work. He started with the top schools in Canada, reasoning that there was a greater chance he would find someone interested in working on a hockey problem. And that was how an NHL team came to fund the PhD research of a young engineering student named Jonathan Arsenault at McGill University in Montreal. His thesis, the first to be backed by a professional hockey team? “Quantitative Analysis of Hockey Using Spatiotemporal Tracking Data.” ⬅️ *** NYT/The Athletic: nytimes.com/athletic/6286244…
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We need the same exact Game 1 intro of Knicks vs. Spurs 1999 Finals that NBA on NBC made back in the day

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might change my name to Wemby’s and only serve french fries after last night’s game
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This is the single most important chart. If AI were driving prices, you'd see a cluster top-right. You don't. States with huge load growth (VA, TX, NV, ND, IA) sit at ~0c change in 5y. States with massive price hikes (CA, NY, MA, CT) have basically NO load growth.
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Interesting application of Jevon's paradox applied to learning
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Thank you! #kinshipventures
Thanks to its deal with Anthropic, XAI, now SpaceXAI, is pivoting from massive losses at Colossus to significant profitability as a neocloud on an estimated $5-6 billion in annual revenues. Brilliant SpaceX move, @elonmusk and @GwynethPaltrow !
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Anyone else notice that ball 8 (Winnipeg) was ahead of ball 12 in the tube before being magically passed?!? #rigged @NHL @spittinchiclets #NHLdraftlottery
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Nation Excitedly Gathers For Annual Tradition Of Seeing Whose Career Will Be Killed By Cleveland Browns buff.ly/w3Bd3Ng
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Room for one more?
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Vince Coleman once stole second base after 17 pickoff attempts
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“Como as pistas de fórmula 1 são desenhadas”

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Lehigh set an NCAA record for most runs in the top of the 1st inning… Here’s how it happened 🤯 HBP BB HBP 2 RBI 2B BB RBI 1B HBP HBP (Pitching change) K BB RBI BB RBI BB RBI HBP RBI HBP (Pitching change) RBI BB BB RBI BB RBI BB RBI BB (Pitching change) Grand Slam F9 6-3 Final: 38-6
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UConn vs. Duke, as a masterpiece
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FLOYD MAYWEATHER vs. MANNY PACQUIAO Two of the greatest icons in boxing history will meet again in the first-ever professional boxing match at Sphere in Las Vegas. Saturday September 19 LIVE globally only on Netflix #MayPac2
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Registration is now open for the 7th Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium (CSAS) April 10–11, 2026, University of Connecticut statds.org/events/csas2026/r…

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Keynotes by Mark Glickman and @DeanO_Lytics Student poster competition. Poster abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2026. You will get a poster submission link in the confirmation email after registering for the conference.
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Sponsorship/Partnership: for opportunities, contact Dr. Jun Yan (jun.yan@uconn.edu). An optional résumé book for sponsors will be collected.
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