other projects
Essays, calculators, and assorted side projects.
- Marathon Course Converter — How fast is your marathon course? Look up any of 1,000+ courses and convert your finish time between them, estimated from 17 million race results holding the runner, year, age, and weather constant.
- How Improbable Was DiMaggio’s 56-Game Hitting Streak? — A formula for the probability of the most “unbreakable” record in sports.
- The Powder Tax: The Real Bottleneck in Utah’s Ski Traffic Isn’t on the Road — Measuring the Wasatch’s congestion crisis with the help of a Snowbird legend who serves as a standard candle for lift lines.
- What’s the Best Ski Lift in North America? — A universal, geometry-based measure of what a lift actually delivers, computed for every lift on the continent.
- Should You Take the Singles Line? — A probability-theory answer to skiing’s most contentious etiquette question.
- Increasing Concentration in the Era of Epic and Ikon: Are Skiers and Boarders Better or Worse Off? (with Travis Swiger) — Marriner S. Eccles Institute brief on consolidation in the ski industry.