Comments on: The Mad Scientist Remains http://sportinggnomes.com/the-mad-scientist-remains/ Roaming the Wide World of Clemson Sports Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:50:03 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Clem http://sportinggnomes.com/the-mad-scientist-remains/#comment-22061 Clem Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:02:48 +0000 http://sportinggnomes.com/the-mad-scientist-remains/#comment-22061 uhh...........what? uhh………..what?

]]> By: Broken Gnome http://sportinggnomes.com/the-mad-scientist-remains/#comment-22049 Broken Gnome Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:24:50 +0000 http://sportinggnomes.com/the-mad-scientist-remains/#comment-22049 The following point has been on my mind for a while, although I don't think I've yet bothered to write it anywhere; it isn't enough that we are moving in the right direction, we must also measure whether we are moving more quickly than our opponents. On another note, having just finished reading the Black Swan, I have to wonder if football statistics are Gaussian or Mandelbrotian (or at least, non-Gaussian), and whether Spence/Bowden's statistical analyses properly match. I'd guess that football is non-Gaussian (as a single event (play) can have a huge impact on the average), but that Spence/Bowden treat it as such only occasionally. The following point has been on my mind for a while, although I don’t think I’ve yet bothered to write it anywhere; it isn’t enough that we are moving in the right direction, we must also measure whether we are moving more quickly than our opponents.

On another note, having just finished reading the Black Swan, I have to wonder if football statistics are Gaussian or Mandelbrotian (or at least, non-Gaussian), and whether Spence/Bowden’s statistical analyses properly match. I’d guess that football is non-Gaussian (as a single event (play) can have a huge impact on the average), but that Spence/Bowden treat it as such only occasionally.

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