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Luke Benz

@recspecs730.bsky.social

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Statistician at Eli Lilly | PhD Harvard Biostats | Yale ('19) | Interests: Sports/Stats/Health lukebenz.com

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Luke Benz @recspecs730.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Micah was nice enough to send me some textless visuals of his World Cup graphics, based on my model. I loved them so much I got them framed and hanging on my wall!

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Luke Benz @recspecs730.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Technically I am after each round (not game) but the updates are fairly small so won’t make huge difference. Unfortunately it highly underrates France

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 27/06/2026

I'm so insanely pleased with this new layout that I feel compelled to show you what the tournament looked like on Day 0. I'm mad that it took me until the group stage is nearly done to finish it.

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Luke Benz @recspecs730.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Maybe a little bit lucky for AUS but this take looking ok for now!

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 11/06/2026

⬣⬣⬣ WORLD CUP VIZ ⬣⬣⬣ Luke Benz (@recspecs730.bsky.social) made a model to measure the strengths of the teams in the Men's 2026 World Cup and I made viz from one million sims that shows the chances and the pathways for each team through the tournament. This thread updates (at least) daily.

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Luke Benz @recspecs730.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

World Cup Sim Top 5: 🇧🇷🇪🇸🇦🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷 Code: github.com/lbenz730/wor... Blog: lukebenz.com/post/world_c...

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health @hsph.harvard.edu · 28/05/2026

Harvard Chan School’s Class of 2026 gathered with their friends and family to celebrate at their Convocation ceremony today in Boston. Watch the ceremony at hsph.me/graduation #HarvardChan26

A student wearing doctoral regalia smiling

Rochelle Walensky, former director of the CDC, addresses the crowd from the podium

Andrea Baccarelli, dean of the faculty, shakes hands with a graduating PhD student

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Luke Benz @recspecs730.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I know I’m just generally curious about the rule. I thought I had heard something to that effect but I wonder if it’s even an option for LAD or (effectively) not.

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Luke Benz @recspecs730.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Not 100% sure but I thought LAD would lose the DH spot in the case Ohtani enters the game as an RP

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Excited for #CMSAC at #NESSIS! www.nessis.org + PhD student Michele Sezgin's poster: Does furosemide make horses run faster? + @qntkhvn.bsky.social talk: #NFL change of direction arxiv.org/abs/2507.06122 + Myself (w/ @recspecs730.bsky.social) talk: College Football Volatility #sportsanalytics

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Luke Benz @recspecs730.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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Luke Benz @recspecs730.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Feel like this needs a follow-up after Rafaela's last few weeks (since the Milwaukee series in mid may).

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American Journal of Epidemiology @amjepi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

So much great research at last night’s Poster Session! 🎉It was awesome seeing you all there—check out the highlights below ⬇️ 📸 Shoutout to Luke Benz (Harvard Biostats PhD student) repping his first-author AJE paper! See you tonight at 6:30pm for Round 2 of posters! #SER2025

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