parker fleming
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🏈PRESEASON AVERAGE WIN TOTALS v1🏈 Here are the results of 10,000 sims of the college football regular season, based on my preseason priors. Everyone's got to start somewhere, here's where I have all 136 teams starting this fall.
11 Takeaways from my interview with Daniel Kahneman: 1. Delay Your Intuition: At 22, Kahneman redesigned the Israeli army’s interview system. The old way relied on gut feelings about recruits, and it failed badly. His fix: make interviewers score six specific traits separately,…
We need college football schedules with a sense of theology and geometry.
Penn State's James Franklin: "When the Big Ten 1st went to 9 (conference) games, you could make the argument maybe it was the worst decision the Big Ten ever made. Mathematically you’re going to have more losses. There’s an easy solution to (playoff format): everybody plays the…
Parker Fleming on why he didn't push his code: "I've moved on, I've moved on to the new repo and it's as simple as that."
Eagles QB Jalen Hurts on why he didn’t wear the Super Bowl ring: “I’ve moved on, I’ve moved on to the new year and it’s as simple as that.”
wow!
Introducing TIME's list of the best podcasts of all time: 100 podcasts that shaped the genre and pushed it forward ti.me/451XhfW
hell yeah
Fran Brown on height of Syracuse’s recruiting class: “I think big people beat little people up.”
I asked Claude to come up with a promotion-relegation structure for college football, based on revenue, TV ratings, and team success. This is what it came up with for the top league:
Just started to draw a relegation-inspired college football conference realignment map. I need an intervention.
Excited to announce I am hiring for a Data Science Lead, Sports Analytics! You will work closely w/ Engineering, Analytics & Data Science teammates to build data solutions informing decision-making for talent identification, roster management & sports administration. (Link below)
A primer on some important priorities as we head into college football season: 1. Have fun 2. Hate your rival 3. Beat your rival 4. Learn ball a little more every week 6. Ignore the suits and watch the games 5. Don't let your physical health go - hydrate, stretch at commercials
We are pleased to welcome Marcus Welnel to a new position as Assistant Athletic Director - Chief Revenue Officer! gogriz.com/news/2025/7/22… #GoGriz
oh this is dangerous
We made a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes in parallel. Introducing Conductor!
as expansion talks pop back up on the timeline, time to re-up
Bold idea for a college football postseason: Conference Championships are decided in a single game after a fiercely-contested regular season. Then, after those, we pair up teams with similar resumes to play a slate of destination games that are a celebration of college football…