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Attention Excel Users and Business Owners: Allow Me to Introduce the FILTER() Function

Now, I know what you may be thinking – why use a function like FILTER() when pivot tables have a filter feature in them already? The spreadsheets for this tutorial are on my GitHub repository. That’s

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I Goofed with OOTP and Found Something Interesting

For July 18, I ran the simulator and found results that didn't seem quite right. Upon investigating I realized that I goofed with OOTP and found something interesting. It turns out this goof

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Why I Postponed Daily OOTP Sims

If you have been following this baseball analytics segment of my website, you know that I had purchased the Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP) simulator for the 2019 season. The simulator allows users

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Summary of OOTP Predictions to April 19

This post is a summary of the OOTP Prediction to April 19. I decided not to include the first few games in March as much of the stats for those predictions were based on the previous season. By April,

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OOTP Predictions for April 10 2019

The OOTP Predictions for April 10 2019 are ready and shown below. The results for the OOTP Predictions for April 9 2019 did better than the previous results. But, it wasn't stellar.  In true

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OOTP Predictions for April 8 2019

Yesterday's predictions were amazing, to say the least. When you open it, you'll find there were 13 out of 15 games predicted correctly. I have written in the past how I expect the simulations to improve

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OOTP Predictions for April 7 2019

The simulation module for the OOTP Predictions for April 6 2019 predicted correctly 9 out of 15 games. This is something we should expect from a simulator capable of predicting the World Series and

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OOTP Predictions for April 4 2019

The predictions for yesterday's games were better than they have been. I'd like to suggest that it's because teams are starting to find themselves, but we'll see if that is what happens over the next

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OOTP Predictions for April 3

The OOTP Predictions for April 3 are complete and ready for you to view below. The results from yesterday's games are falling in line with previous predictions. There were seven incorrect predictions

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OOTP Predictions for April 1 2019

The OOTP predictions for April 1, 2019 are ready, and they a likely to make you think it's some kind of April Fool's joke. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The results were rather bad once again. My

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