By Daniel Alpert and Timothy Pugh Every year, Baseball-Reference comes out with statistics showing each team’s total wins above average (WAA), but also that WAA broken down by position. For those unfamiliar with WAA, it is the...
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By Chase Aldridge When people think of March Madness, they often focus on the men’s tournament because of its history of Cinderella’s making deep runs into the tournament (ie. Loyola-Chicago this year). There seems to always...
By Daniel Blumenthal and Brendan Connolly As March Madness approaches, HSAC is back (with brand new authors) to provide some last-minute statistical nuggets that could help you fill out your bracket. Overall: 1.) Besides UCONN...
By Brendan Kent This year’s Big Ten tournament was a week earlier than usual, ending a week before Selection Sunday rather than on Selection Sunday. The conference wanted the tournament in Madison Square Garden, but that’s...
By Andrew Puopolo Three years ago, former HSAC Co-President Brendan Kent wrote a piece on aggression in Premier League derbies. In the article, Brendan looked at 8 derbies over a 5 year span and concluded that there is...
By Jack Schroeder Around 4:00 am EST Saturday morning, skip John Shuster led Team USA to a 10-7 victory over Sweden in the men’s curling gold medal match in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The result appeared near...
By Matty Cheng Not just any other game. December 2nd, 2010: new Miami Heat LeBron James’ revenge game against his former team, the Cavaliers. April 13th, 2013: Carmelo Anthony’s homecoming game against the Denver Nuggets he...
By Andrew Puopolo At the end of the December match between Arsenal and West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns, West Brom’s left-back Kieran Gibbs put in a cross that struck Calum Chambers on the hand, and Mike Dean awarded a...
By Chase Aldridge & PJ Robinson As pitchers and catchers report today in preparation for the 2018 Major League Baseball season, we look forward to the future of baseball – the prospects. Many publications have predicted a...
By Andrew Puopolo Last week, I wrote a piece about parity in the NFL. Many of the comments on that article claimed that since 5 out of the 6 NFC playoff teams differed from a year ago, there was plenty of parity in the NFL...