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stat.AP2024
Bye-Bye, Bye Advantage: Estimating the competitive impact of rest differential in the National Football League
Michael J Lopez, Thompson J Bliss
The National Football League (NFL) sets its regular season schedule to optimize viewership and minimize competitive inequities. One inequity assumed to impact team performance is r…
stat.AP2014
Building an NCAA mens basketball predictive model and quantifying its success
Michael J. Lopez, Gregory Matthews
The old adage says that it is better to be lucky than to be good, but when it comes to winning NCAA tournament pools, do you need to be both? This paper attempts to answer this que…