Tony Corke

Tony Corke

@matterofstats.bsky.social

#rstats, maths, science, quirky stuff, and Aussie Rules football. @matterofstats on Twitter "Your data is not required to follow a well-defined distribution"

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** NEW COUNTRY ALERT ** MoS Welcomes Its First Ever Visitor from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines! That's two new countries this month Just 27 "countries" now missing

So, in breaking news, it turns out that FMI Play AFLW scoring is intransitive in that it is possible, using the same forecasts and results, that Player A beats Player B, Player B beats Player C, but Player C beats Player A. There have been 1,227 example of this in the all-plays-all data this season

Since 2020 (which was historically very low) the proportion of men's AFL games with an obvious, strong favourite has climbed to historically quite high levels and the proportion with near equal favourites fallen to historically low levels

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Mathematician: I was trying to differentiate myself and got backed into a corner

Cameron Patrick@cameronpat.bsky.social

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Statistician: Yeah, I was Missing At Random

Ruin a book by adding a word: Petty Crime & Punishment Lord of the Open Flies Price War & Peace White Zipper Teeth Life of Pi Squared The Da Vinci HIghway Code The Catcher in the Wholemeal Rye Gone with the Wind Chime A Brief History of Hammer Time Bridget Jones's Unused Diary