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A statistical look at Michigan State basketball, with a dash of football talk

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We need a bigger basketball arena!

kj on May 27th 2008

AKA They’re numbers and they’re MSU basketball-related, so I must analyze them.
Despite once again selling out every home game, MSU ranked just 17th in the nation in average home attendance this season (from the page I’ve linked to, there’s a link to a Word file with all the details). This is, of course, a [...]

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State of the Blog Address: End-of-Season Edition

kj on Mar 31st 2008

It’s been four months and eight days since this blog sprung into being. During that time:

I’ve put up 176 posts (1.26 per day on a tempo-free basis!)
You’ve left 656 comments
There’ve been over 34,000 hits on the blog

Readership has increased steadily throughout the season–beyond what I could have reasonably expected going into this.

Cannot . . [...]

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Commercial Interruption

kj on Mar 2nd 2008

Finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh? Eh comrades? Eh?
–Austin Powers
You’ll note there’s a new image/link of a clearly capitalist nature at the top of the column on the right. The link takes you to richrobots.com, where you can purchase the t-shirt shown below:

A little background: A friend gave [...]

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State of the Blog Address

kj on Feb 1st 2008

It’s now been a little over two months since I started this endeavor, and I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for continuing to stop by and read the insights I have to offer (and by “insights,” I mean “paragraphs of densely-packed statistics with a few actual independently-derived observations thrown in”). Thanks, [...]

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The blogger has left the building

kj on Jan 4th 2008

Three minimal game previews have been posted, in case you’d like to chat amongst yourselves in the comment sections. Here’s a topic: Why the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire. Or you could talk about the games. That’ll give me something to read when I get back.
Final link [...]

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The next two weeks

kj on Dec 28th 2007

Due to various leisure-related activities, I’ll be posting game previews–but not game recaps–for the next three MSU games.  I’ll put up a UW-Green Bay preview later tonight, but will then depart the blogosphere until next Tuesday or Wednesday.  I’ll try to get a couple posts up late next week, including a conference preview of some [...]

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Your turn

kj on Nov 29th 2007

So we’re a week into this endeavor. And I’ve been blogging considerably more than I thought I would be. This is turning out to be quite enjoyable, but also more time-consuming than I anticipated. So I’m going to take tonight off.
But in the interest of making this a learning experience, I’d love [...]

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