A collection of other projects and fun things I’ve completed or been involved in.

Software

ncaahoopR: An R package for working NCAA basketball play-by-play data. (Package, Data)
mixWAS: An efficient distributed algorithm for mixed-outcomes genome-wide association studies (Package)

Mentoring

Projects by high school students I have mentored

Feder, Ryan. “A Holistic Examination of Streakiness and Consistency in Major League Baseball.” Wharton Sports Analytics & Research Journal, Spring 2024. (Link)
Feder, Ryan. “Understanding the Effects of the 2023 MLB Rule Changes.” Poster presented at UConn Sports Analytics Symposium, Spring 2024.

An Examination of Timeout Value, Strategy, and Momentum in NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Senior Thesis in Applied Mathematics, Spring 2019 This work won first place in the the 2019 Spring USPROC Reseach Contest. (Paper, Poster, GitHub Repository)
A Bayesian Examination of Win Probability and Timeout Usage in NCAA Men’s Basketball: Final Project for BIS 567, Fall 2018 Poster
Weighting Schema for Regression Based Ratings and Predictions in Australian Rules Football: Final Project for S&DS 312, Fall 2018 Paper

Millburn Savant: A website that contains many advanced statistical graphics and breakdowns for my fantasy baseball league. The site updates itself daily using GitHub Actions/Docker. (Repo)
recspecs730 Basketball Central: An R Shiny Application containing NCAA Basketball power pankings, conference simulations and breakdowns, team breakdowns, game projections, and bracketology.
NCAA Assist Networks: An R Shiny Application for NCAA Basketball Assist Networks
New York Section 2 Basketabll Assist Networks: An R Shiny Application for rending high school basketball assist networks.Press Release

Yale Daily News: While at Yale, I wrote a semi-regular column for the school newspaper called “BY THE NUMBERS”. A listing of articles written can be found here.
Mid Major Madness: Articles for midmajormadness.com on Ivy League Basketball and NCAA basketball analytics.
Yale Undergraduate Sports Analytics Group: Some other articles/projects in sports analytics. (List)

Presentations from NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in 2017 and 2018

NIST Homegeneity Assessor User’s Manual (Summer 2018) Paper
Launch and Demonstration of the NIST Homogeneity Assessor (Summer 2018) Slides
Combining Results in Collaborative Studies when Reported Uncertainties are Unreliable (Summer 2017) Slides

Featured Solutions

Blog Posts

Code solutions to several riddlers can be found here.