by Andrew Lindner | Mar 13, 2019 | Research Notes, sports
With two matches left in the English Premier League (EPL) season, Cardiff has a 96% chance of being relegated back down to the Championship League (CL) in English football, according to FiveThirtyEight. Being relegated is an excruciating experience for a fanbase to...
by Andrew Lindner | Jan 5, 2017 | Contexts, Research Notes, sports
Ryan Larson and I have a piece in the current issue of Contexts about last year’s extraordinary season in the English Premier League (EPL). In short, the last season longstanding correlation between wage spending and points in the table fell apart. And it wasn’t all...
by Andrew Lindner | Feb 23, 2016 | sports, Students
There’s nothing better than having students who are altogether more impressive than yourself. I have many such students and near the top is Ryan Larson, a current University of Minnesota grad student and a former student of mine at Concordia College. Ryan was...
by Andrew Lindner | Feb 15, 2016 | sports
Cross-posted at ThickCulture. Arsenal’s victory with a breathtaking extra time goal by Danny Welbeck this past weekend notwithstanding, Leicester City’s season has had the kind of storyline we normally only see in Hollywood movies. This isn’t a March Madness...