Max Whalen

UGA Data Science '23 | GA Tech M.S. Industrial Engineering '25

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

Reworked this a little for rounds 1-7 since 2010, redefining a draft "hit" as a player that signed a second deal anywhere above market value (more on that below).

Makes the threshold for a "hit" a little higher, but nonetheless think it's revealing.

Sure, you have a good chance of landing a successful IOL in R1, but you also do in R3. And your EDGE choice might be a coin flip in R1, but good luck in R3!

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

ESPN content producer @PaulHembo calculated the percentage of 1st-round picks that “hit” or “miss,” based upon whether that player signed a second contract with the team that drafted them.

The data encompasses the 20 drafts spanning 2000-2019. Here are the positional hit rates:

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

@AdamSpencer4 Don’t forget first guy voted off of the best survivor season of all time

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

@WomanDefiner On every dimension, whatever is going on at the VA and Booz Allen Hamilton (who is massively involved in a huge number of operations) is nothing short of pure corruption. There is endless human centipede-ing and incompetence.

https://t.co/J3DBAYUn71

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Rockefeller was relentlessly persistent:

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

@William35612 @FloridaBBHour Look at his HS highlights, where he was forced to handle the ball. Obviously it’s a leap to college but he could handle the ball well then and didn’t lose any of his suddenness off the bounce. Just wasn’t asked to do that with four guards who called handle the ball last year.

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

Because you don’t see the poofers make it on to the tour anymore! Why don’t you compare the length of winners in the last 5 years to the prior 5? They’re obviously longer. The bottom half in length may be winning on tour, but these players length of the tee is obviously not in the bottom half of competitive players.

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

@semaJ7272 So maybe they were clapping for Porzingis?

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

Reworked this a little for rounds 1-7 since 2010, redefining a draft "hit" as a player that signed a second deal anywhere above market value (more on that below).

Makes the threshold for a "hit" a little higher, but nonetheless think it's revealing.

Sure, you have a good chance of landing a successful IOL in R1, but you also do in R3. And your EDGE choice might be a coin flip in R1, but good luck in R3!

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

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[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

I think this misses the point of the paradigm shift that is happening now. Today ~85% of Doctors jobs are primarily recall and non-technical procedures (i.e. not surgery). For Lawyers this is close to 100% I imagine? If this is a bet on AI long term, that skill of pure recall becomes increasingly obsolete under the pretense that we are approaching AGI. We no longer will exclusively operate under the old procedure where you store up information and bring it into the hospital/court room.

If we can give practitioners, like Doctors, near perfect recall in a way that is not obtrusive (obviously no one wants their doctor using dictation on ChatGPT) then I see that as a win. It's not cheating anymore, it's just an essential tool of the trade. Maybe the bigger problem is how you filter idiots from becoming Doctors then, but that's another issue.

(Bezel is awesome btw)

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

@AnthonyDabbundo Impressive.

[Billy Napier @coach_bnapier]

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[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

This is a pretty poor understanding of what happened here. The most important point here is that Golden was trying to take advantage of the 1&1, not just make a guy “flip a switch” and save time. Second, it’s much more likely the instruction was to foul Toppin, who is a 67% FT shooter, not Williams.
The EV is likely similar for Toppin on a 1&1 vs a full possession, with the opportunity to create an extra possession. That’s true. But this logic does not hold for Darrion Williams, an 84% free throw shooter.

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

@EliHershkovich Have you ever seen this play in a game of pickup basketball? This does not ever happen, this is very clearly intentional.

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

@_LFGolf @practicalgolf @Daniel_Rapaport @GrantHorvatGolf Professional golf is an entertainment product. If it ceases to be entertaining, then it provides no value. The 120th guy in the field being really good at golf has almost zero intrinsic value, so if value comes from the product being entertaining then Horvat deserves the spot.

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

Updated link:
https://t.co/J3DBAYUUWz

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

In the last week, @WSJ has written two articles about DOGE's scrutiny of Booz Allen Hamilton and the VA. I spent nearly the last two years with both. I wrote about it and how it could be that the people working in essential jobs aren't always essential workers.

https://t.co/3Jne0VvPcX

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

This is a LIV Golf tweet

[Paul Graham @paulg]

When you consider that you could run a fleet of 100,000 Twitter accounts with blue checks for less than $10 million a year, a foreign power that wanted to influence US politics would be pretty slack if they didn't try to create one.

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

For you newbies out there baffled at the talk of models and algorithms on golf twitter, let me tell you what an algorithm is.

An algorithm is a formula that when you input all the numbers and data, the answer it always gives you is Doug Ghim

[Larry @Tom & Marty's @tomandmartys]

For you newbies out there baffled at the talk of models and algorithms on golf twitter, let me tell you what an algorithm is.

An algorithm is a formula that when you input all the numbers and data, the answer it always gives you is Russell Henley.

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

This is completely antithetical to the point Thiel was trying to make, if this is a real quote. What he was more likely getting at…

“The most powerful anti-Christian movement is the one that takes over and ‘radicalizes’ the [Christian] concern for victims in order to paganize it… what the radicalization of contemporary victimology produces is a return to all sorts of pagan practices: abortion, euthanasia, sexual undifferentiation, Roman circus games galore but without real victims, etc.”

-René Girard, I see Satan Fall Like Lightning (Ch. 14)

[Max Whalen @maxstats3]

@FloridaBBHour @BIODAWGSPORTBOI @TrillThreeski Now do the Walt phantom foul. All around horrible officiating but it certainly played a role last night.