We continue from Part 1. I was able to call back to my Data Science competition winning days and started building a Jupyter notebook to determine a viable solution to MTG Win Expectancy. Step 1: Parse…

I love data. More specifically, I love the kind of data that changes how people understand a game. That is why I have always had a crush on the sabermetrics community. Baseball fans took a sport…

During my junior year of college, I decided to wander around the quad on club day. I spotted an Ultimate table and figured, why not go to their "tryouts"? Although my competitive career didn't last very…

In a previous post, I pitched IRL Merit Badges for adults. I talked about how much I love digital trophies I get from Strava, and how satisfying it is to unlock rare gear in video games.…

As runners, we spend a ridiculous amount of time app-juggling. We check the weather app to see the temp, open Strava to look at a route, switch to another site to check our heatmaps, and maybe…

In 2023 I started using an open-source tool to help my limited Magic play: https://github.com/bstaple1/MTGA_Draft_17Lands. Near the end of the year, the app stopped working, and I took the honor of figuring out what was broken.…

I am surprised at how much I have taken to F1 racing. I was never a "car guy." But something about the simplicity, yet complexity of the sport interests me. But, I have never actually seen…

I have tried a lot of things to optimize my brain and body. I have run every day for nine years. I have fasted for 15 hours a day. I stopped eating meat. I even stopped…

If runspeedrun is going to be more than just me sweating in my basement while my family wonders why I’m yelling at a TV, I need a plan. I need to turn my basement into a…