by Robert Martin | Jan 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A massive early vote lead. A higher minority share of the electorate. Large turnout in the suburbs. Favorable polling for the Democrats. Almost every possible factor pointing to a Democratic win. We all know exactly where we saw...
by Robert Martin | Nov 25, 2020 | Sports, Uncategorized
While I didn’t have an article out earlier this week recapping the results from the weekend, I decided to wait until we got the first set of College Football Playoff Rankings, so that we could have a little more information about the playoff picture. Now that they’re...
by Robert Martin | Nov 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week, in our series analyzing the results of the 2020 election, I examined why the model struggled, and the specific areas where it performed poorly. This week, I want to talk about one of the less discussed parts of the election: Trump’s surge with...
by Robert Martin | Nov 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
As the dust has begun to settle on the 2020 election, most of the modelers have begun dissecting what went right and what went wrong. At LeanTossup we’re not pulling any punches here, we were wrong. We’re not going to point to calling 46/51 states correct, or calling...
by Robert Martin | Nov 15, 2020 | Sports, Uncategorized
In a week of canceled games due to COVID-19, many of the storylines we hoped to have answers to after this week are still unresolved. However, we did learn a lot about many of the teams that did play this week, and it further sets up the stage for next weeks matchups....