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NFL Stat-Around: Who Will Win the Super Bowl?

January 7, 2016
by harvardsports
12 min read
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Heading into the playoffs, multiple teams can make a claim that they are the favorites to win it all, and even those who just barely snuck in have hopes. We decided to look at several of the playoff teams from an analytical...

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  • NFL Football

Belichick Might Have Been Wrong (For Once)

December 29, 2015
by harvardsports
4 min read
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By Thomas Negron This past Sunday, Bill Belichick did the unthinkable, he chose to kickoff in overtime. Controversy erupted as there seemed to be communication errors between the referees and Patriots Special Teams Captain...

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  • NFL Football

Dive Into the Tiebreakers: How The Colts Can Make the Playoffs

December 28, 2015
by harvardsports
6 min read
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By John Acton Because the NFL has a small sample size and football games are too physically draining to schedule extra tiebreakers, hard-core NFL fans are well-accustomed to accounting for tiebreaking procedures before and during...

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  • NFL Football

The Patriots Have a 4.3% Chance of Going 19-0

November 19, 2015
by harvardsports
3 min read
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By Harrison Chase and Austin Tymins After the Patriots narrowly escaped the Meadowlands with a win this Sunday afternoon, Ian O’Connor of ESPN suggested that readers would be smart to bet on the Patriots going 19-0, saying...

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Which is the Best Division in the NFL?

November 12, 2015
by harvardsports
6 min read
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By Harrison Chase and Austin Tymins Earlier this semester, HSAC was fortunate enough to have Bill Barnwell, formerly of Grantland.com, come to a meeting discuss all things NFL with us. One of the questions that came up was which...

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The Seven Tiers of NFL Teams

November 5, 2015
by harvardsports
5 min read
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By Harrison Chase and Austin Tymins Over the past two weeks, we have been putting out articles with our POWER rankings for the 2015 NFL season, which are based on average win expectancy over the course of the game. While we have...

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Introducing POWER Rankings for the NFL

October 22, 2015
by harvardsports
7 min read
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By Harrison Chase and Austin Tymins One of the coolest things to come out of sports analytics in the past few years has been the win expectancy curves that have popped up on various sites. After reading an article at 538 last...

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The Effect of Time Zones on Fantasy Football Quarterbacks

September 29, 2015
by harvardsports
4 min read
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by Henry Johnson During Sunday’s Chargers-Vikings game, Philip Rivers had a lot to go up against. He had to deal with constant pressure, injured teammates, and unfortunate tipped passes. As a result, Rivers delivered a paltry...

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Ask Madden: Fantasy Football Edition

September 10, 2015
by harvardsports
4 min read
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By Dylan McDonough In the midst of a ferocious comeback, an animated New England Patriots offense stands at the thirty yard line of the Colts side of the field. Down by four, the Patriots need a touchdown to win, but as the clock...

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Extending the NFL Season to a Million Games

June 2, 2015
by harvardsports
10 min read
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By Bill Lotter If time, money, and brain damage weren’t an issue, how would you decide if Nick Foles or Sam Bradford is better?  You’d take a generic team, plug in Nick Foles, and play a million games.  You’d do the same...

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