by Harry Chiel & Owen Prunskis In their blog post “Belichick and Brady Address the Media: A Statistical Report,” Ben Blatt and Andrew Mooney accurately describe the mind-numbing, yet occult, phenomenon that is a Bill...
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by Andrew Mooney This post also appeared on Boston.com here Predictably, the Red Sox’ uneven start to the season brought with it more than its fair share of hand wringing. That’s understandable, given the way the beginning...
This is the abstract from the paper “Optimizing Draft Strategies in Fantasy Football” by Papa Chakravarthy. Please find the full text here. Data was collected from ESPN.com and Pro Football Reference to determine a...
This is the abstract from the paper “Salary Allocation and Risk Preferences in the National Football League: The Implications of Salary Allocation in Understanding the Preferences of NFL Owners” by Papa...
Please follow this link to read HSAC contributor Sam Waters’s analysis of Brandon Morrow at www.baseballanalytics.org. Quick preview: Heading into this year, many still view Morrow as a breakout candidate, but the narrative...
by Robert Bedetti ESPN is once again allowing Mel Kiper to flaunt his homemade haircut and scowl on live television, which can only mean one thing: draft day is approaching. As we count down the days to the start of the draft...
By David Roher Fellow sabermetricians, let’s try to take over Twitter today.  Click Here to open up our Opening Day livechat. We’ll coordinate different crowdsourcing initiatives throughout the day. Here’s one to start:...
By Alex Koenig The NBA Draft Lottery was instituted by the league in 1985 after accusations that teams were deliberately tanking to secure the first pick in the draft. The logic went that it was worth a team’s while to give up...
by Chris Bruce With fantasy basketball nearing playoff time and fantasy baseball drafts in full swing, a thought occurred to our club: how much do these fantasy stats that people meticulously pore over actually relate to the real...
by Evan Zepfel Previously, I determined that league regulations contribute to differences in average subsidy sizes across the three major leagues. Â As I hypothesized, NFL regulations that contribute to credible threats to...