Lukas Hager

The Loser’s Curse: Decision Making and Market Efficiency in the NFL Matt’s Keeper League Draft

Bayesian Modeling

I suck at fantasy football.

A Pointless `rstan` Exploration

Bayesian Modeling

In my Ph.D., one of my projects introduced me to empirical Bayesian methods, in a very simplified setting (using Metropolis-Hastings as the algorithm). However, I’ve become…

Alaska

Photography

Outdoors

First post in a while! I’ve been reflecting recently on (1) how hopefully a chapter of my life is about to end in that I’m graduating and (2) how lucky I’ve been the last…

Experimenting with Xaringan Package

Xaringan

I’ve been a little tired of the Beamer slides that I’ve been making to TA and present things (all of our professors use Beamer, all the slides look the same, and after two…

Cherry Blossoms on the Quad

Photography

Spring has sprung (sort of) in Seattle! In a time where the first year of grad school has been super weird for a ton of different reasons, it’s wonderful to be able to see…

Analyzing First Pitch Choices

Data Processing

Baseball

What I’m interested in looking at here will be some more strategic analysis of pitching, and specifically, pitch choices. For more background on this, see this post. In…

Understanding Pitching Data

Data Processing

Baseball

This past week, I started talking to one of my classmates, Shabab Ahmed, about the possibility of doing a research project together. The one problem: it has to do with the…

Pilot

Introduction

I read somewhere that if you’re a graduate student, you need to have a website. I think I agree with this in theory, but it’s also intimidating to start out with a blank…