Fantasy leagues, numbers and predictions
What does determine success in a fantasy soccer team (at least, in the very specific fantasy game I've chosen for this analysis)? Each player in a team is given an individual score, based on a combination...
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Update: Campionato del mondo per incompetenti
Il campionato ha avuto inizio e la prima fase è in corso, sebbene non tutti gli iscritti abbiano già messo in campo i loro 11 prescelti.La composizione della squadra del sottoscritto, oltre a qualche...
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Campionato del mondo per incompetenti
Nella mia ricerca di una qualche forma di motivazione per interessarmi alle vicende dei campionati del mondo di calcio, dopo un primo infruttuoso tentativo scaturito dall'aver appreso dell'esistenza di...
Soccer and numbers
In my search for a source of interest towards the Football World Cup, after a first unsuccessful attempt with a book about applied statistics, I found an alternative that might do the trick. Driven by...
Calcionomica
Fondamentalmente il calcio non mi interessa. Per carità, se si tratta di tirare quattro pedate a un pallone su un prato non mi tiro indietro: ma il calcio giocato da altri, quello col quale il mio contatto...
Soccernomics
I wonder if my complete lack of interest for football can be brought to a truce, at least for the duration of the World Cup. So, when I learned (thanks to the launch of its Italian translation) of the...
Innovation, diplomacy, condoms and the Pope
What's the truth behind the incident with the planned activities for the official papal visit this year in the UK? I can only imagine, but innovation might be the culprit.Has anybody ever taken part...
The Italian blogosphere, at a glance
1741 blogs and the links that describe their reciprocal linking relationships are depicted in the Social Network Analysis diagram drawn by Vincenzo Cosenza, based on data sampled by aggregators on the...
The permeable intranet
I was writing a post about "the walls coming tumbling down" - i.e. the blurring of the distinction between inside and outside the corporate firewall. Then an additional idea popped up into my...
Whose side are you on?
Google's decision to review its policies in China spurred lots of comments about business ethics and compliance to their "don't be evil" motto. Whether it is a matter of ethics or,...
Altruistic behaviour – [Adventures in Farmville #4]
We have seen how the usual balance in earnings and losses is subverted in Farmville, as negative events do not occur but earnings can be wasted if not collected in time - this is obviously functional to...