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By Andrew Puopolo As 2016 winds to a close, we take a look back on 55 reasons why this year was a particularly crazy year in the world of sports. NFL 1.) Both teams that made the Super Bowl failed to make the playoffs the...
By Brendan Kent A while back, I wrote a piece on travel distance in Major League Soccer. It got me thinking about which aspects of travel affect a team’s performance. It would seem that as a trip progresses, travel might take...
By Adam Gilfix Since tonight and tomorrow night are the only two of the entire MLB season with no games or All-Star festivities, it is a perfect day to recap the first “half” of 2015. As you hopefully noticed by...
By Adam Gilfix This post is just a short and sweet follow-up to this article regarding Red Sox players Alejandro De Aza, Mookie Betts, and Brock Holt becoming just the 11th trio of teammates to each double and triple in an MLB...
By Adam Gilfix About three weeks ago, I put up a post on that annoying phrase so often used by the media: “talk about.” Having broken down its prevalence using metrics on the percentage of interviews and questions that...
by Evan Zepfel Since the advent of free agency in 1975, certain Major League Baseball teams have benefited from the ability to acquire talented players through free agency. This system, however, rewards the teams with the...
By David Freed Everyone saw it—with the Kansas City Royals down to their last out of October, facing the seemingly un-hittable Madison Bumgarner on the mound, Alex Gordon had a strike of luck: his blooper into center field got...
By Kurt Bullard In baseball, it is taken as a given that players who hit for power tend to strike out at a higher rate than those who make their living off simply reaching base. A common metric used in portraying this phenomenon...
By Daniel Granoff The Phillies and Giants are heading to San Francisco at a game apiece, having scored a combined 14 runs in the first two games of the NLCS. This total is low by just about any standard…except that of the...
By David Roher Had an incredible time at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference yesterday. I got to tell so many people how long I’d been reading their books and blogs, or how important they were to my becoming interested in...