Tag: Sports
Are NFL Kickers “Regressing” in Field Goal Accuracy?
Rodger Sherman is a fellow Northwestern alumnus who I follow on Twitter, for tweets about NU football and beyond.
He recently tweeted about NFL field...
#Throwback Thursday (and Updates): Bryce Harper, Home Runs, Attendance, and Game...
The Major League Baseball regular season has ended, so there's an opportunity to revisit some posts about statistics, variation, and Process Behavior Charts.
Bryce Harper's...
An Example of Quick PDSA Study & Adjust on ESPN’s MNF?
Last night was the first night of Monday Night Football (MNF) on ESPN. I didn't tune in until the last five minutes of the...
Is Tom Brady Getting Better AND Getting Worse With Age?
I was reading this NFL preview article in the Wall Street Journal (which makes as much sense as getting business news from ESPN, I...
Unraveling the Mystery Behind MLB’s Home Run Surge: A Data-Driven Exploration
It's been a busy few weeks for me with work travel and, blogwise, I'm winding down into a few weeks of "blog vacation" (which...
A PDSA Cycle in the Early Days of Baseball Uniforms
As somebody who grew up as a big baseball fan, I somehow managed to not see the Ken Burns documentary, Baseball.
I've been watching...
Is “Kaizen” a Slogan or a Methodology for the Seattle Mariners?
Here is an interesting article that a few people pointed me toward the other day about the Seattle Mariners team:
Mariners Sunday mailbag: Explaining the...
Metrics Require More Than 2-Pointers or 3-Pointers: NCAA Men’s Hoops Final...
Two data points are not a trend. But, one data point can be a "signal" that a metric has changed enough to merit investigation...
Lessons from Brett Favre on Permission and Innovation
It's a big week for American football. Monday was the College Football Playoff championship game. Alabama, led by Nick Saban and his "Process" were...
Don’t Overexplain College Football Playoff TV Ratings Being at “An All-Time...
We have to be careful with text descriptions of business metrics -- this is true when it's numbers in the news or performance measures...
Using Process Behavior Charts to Compare Red Bead Game “Willing Workers”...
This post is Part Three of a series on using Process Behavior Charts for snapshot comparisons (of individuals, departments, or organizations) instead of the...
Breaking Down the Harada Method: Shohei Ohtani and Norm Bodek’s Success...
You might remember my blog post from May about the Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (that's not a very "lean" team name, is it").
I suggested that Norman Bodek contact baseball or sports writers at publications like ESPN or The Wall Street Journal. The Journal wrote about Ohtani and Harada last week:
How Shohei Ohtani Visualized His Baseball Success
The Japanese two-way sensation turned to a personal-growth technique called the Harada Method to help him achieve his goals
