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Tari Eason is an extra possessions savant
I was messing around, making some graphs with advanced stats from Basketball Reference‘s Advanced stats, when I noticed something interesting. Something remarkable. There are two ways you can give your team an advantage in possessions: you can force turnovers from the other team, or you can grab offensive rebounds. Players can excel at one or…… Read more
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A better way to measure game balance using game theory
Game theory offers an excellent tool for thinking about game balance: the Nash Equilibrium. Nash Equilibria tell us how often players should pick each possible strategy in a competitive game if they are playing optimally. But there’s a problem — describing how different options (characters, civilizations, etc.) in a game perform against each other in…… Read more
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How to be a Smart Approval Voting Voter: An Approver’s Guide
Approval voting offers a simple solution to one of the most annoying problems in the Pick one #link voting system we use in most US elections: If you’re ever stuck deciding whether to vote for one candidate or another, you can just vote for both. Do you like Al Gore and Ralph Nader? Vote for…… Read more
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NBA teams have gotten worse at drafting. Why?
NBA teams have gotten worse at drafting. I look into why and what this could mean for future NBA drafts.… Continue reading NBA teams have gotten worse at drafting. Why? → Read more
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How many candidates should you vote for in an Approval voting election?
Approval Voting offers a simple voting reform: instead of voting for just one candidate in an election, voters can vote for however many they like. This is a pretty obvious fix to a fairly common voting problem; you don’t have to choose between voting for the candidate you really love who has little chance of…… Read more
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Age of Empires 2 is the weirdest game of rock, paper, scissors you’ll ever play
Age of Empires 2 has proven to be an extremely resilient game; despite being originally released before the current millennium (in late 1999) and having been essentially abandoned by Microsoft for nearly a decade, it remained popular, and, after two remakes (in 2013 and 2020), it is perhaps more popular than it has ever been.…… Read more