I had a grand plan, dear reader. I planned to shed quantitative light on the problem of income inequality. And I planned to do it with a million games of web-scraped Scrabble tournament data. But, like in Scrabble, where the best-laid plans sometimes leave you holding a rack full of vowels and nowhere to play […]
I had a grand plan, dear reader. I planned to shed quantitative light on the problem of income inequality. And I planned to do it with a million games of web-scraped Scrabble tournament data. But, like in Scrabble, where the best-laid plans sometimes leave you holding a rack full of vowels and nowhere to play […]
LeBron. Peyton. Tiger. Serena. Nigel. Nigel? When the 2014 National Scrabble Championship begins Saturday in Buffalo, New York, the odds-on favorite will be a 47-year-old New Zealander who resides in Malaysia named Nigel Richards. He is currently ranked first in North America. The difference between his official rating and the second-place player’s is about the […]
LeBron. Peyton. Tiger. Serena. Nigel. Nigel? When the 2014 National Scrabble Championship begins Saturday in Buffalo, New York, the odds-on favorite will be a 47-year-old New Zealander who resides in Malaysia named Nigel Richards. He is currently ranked first in North America. The difference between his official rating and the second-place player’s is about the […]
LeBron. Peyton. Tiger. Serena. Nigel. Nigel? When the 2014 National Scrabble Championship begins Saturday in Buffalo, New York, the odds-on favorite will be a 47-year-old New Zealander who resides in Malaysia named Nigel Richards. He is currently ranked first in North America. The difference between his official rating and the second-place player’s is about the […]
