Last week was my first try at using the statsmodels in Python to try and predict winners for NFL games and compare them against Money Line odds found on Pinnacle. If we use 50% as the threshold between winning and losing a
Austin Jazz Week 13 Update Ouch! Not only did I lose, but my game was featured in our league as being the Biggest Blowout of the Week! I didn’t have much of a chance at all really. When all was said and
Austin Jazz Week 12 Update The Austin Jazz is on a three game Win Streak!!! Yahoo!!! All right, getting a little ahead of myself, but I’m rather proud of how I’ve done the last few weeks. Last week, there was once again
Ags Win in 7-OT Game! Don’t normally talk about college football here, but that game last night was pretty darn insane! I can’t imagine how all the fans in the stands felt being there for a five hour game. It was pretty
Thanksgiving! Lately, it’s been rare that I get a chance to spend Thanksgiving with my family on the actual Thanksgiving Day. For the last few years I’ve been in New York and worked through the Thanksgiving Weekend. Last year I came down
Austin Jazz Week 9 Recap I don’t even know what to make of what happened to my team last week. I thought maybe I just hadn’t prepared to have a couple of key players on a Bye week (which is even worse
Busy 24 hours here…well not busy, busy, just…anyway, here’s what I finished: TV Shows: THE FLASH S4 (Netflix): In double time it went very quickly (a testament to how much time I spend on my desktop these days). No crossovers with
Austin Jazz Week 8 Recap There is probably nothing worse in the world than losing by one point in Fantasy Football. Well, okay, there is a lot more worse in the world, but at that moment on a Sunday night at 10:30
Introduction A few weeks ago, I published a post on predicting Avocado Prices that, I thought, turned out pretty well using the SARIMAX algorithm in the Statsmodels library in Python. Shortly afterward, while on a trip to Houston, I was talking about that blog post with
Austin Jazz Week 7 Recap There wasn’t as much drama this week for the Austin Jazz. I was going up against a team that had only won one game all season. Usually those types of teams have owners that have checked out