The Prime Directive

StatsHomies began in earnest in 2024, just as I was finishing a graduate degree in biostatistics and public health. Looking across the job market and the things I could potentially do in my career, I kept coming back to sports. I listened to sports talk every day (and still do), read books about the nitty gritty of baseball analytics, and now, I had a statistical background that gave me the tools to do things differently. I saw the flaws in the way things are done, flaws that seem like a bunch of people who understand sports but fail to understand complex statistical methods.

That is where the prime directive comes in: give fans advanced methodology and present it in a way that they can understand. Use the info to bet, use it to win debates with your buddies, or use it to evaluate some of the ice cold takes we hear as sports fans all the time. Whatever you do with it, I believe that the average person can understand this stuff (it mostly boils down to basic algebra) and will be interested in the insights that some teams pay a whole staff of analysts for.