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So Far, 2013 Among History’s Maddest Marches

March 26, 2013
by harvardsports
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By Andrew Mooney An already unpredictable season of college basketball got a little bit wackier last weekend. After defeating Georgetown, 15-seed Florida Gulf Coast has received the majority of the Cinderella-centric media...

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Links We Like: SSAC Edition

March 1, 2013
by harvardsports
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In honor of the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference taking place in Boston this weekend, here are our favorites from among the research papers presented: Live by the Three, Die by the Three: A game theoretic look at how NBA teams...

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A Quantitative Forecast of the Oscars

February 22, 2013
by harvardsports
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By Ben Zauzmer The Oscars are dramatic, exhilarating, entertaining, and…mathematical? In an awards show famous for upsets, plot twists, politics, and preference, I set out to determine if numbers alone can accurately model the...

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Profile of an NFL Fanbase: Are all 13 year old girls bandwagon fans?

February 1, 2013
by harvardsports
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by Ben Blatt This is the final post in a series of three on NFL fandom. The first two can be read here and here. To the typical male football fan it may be depressing, but certainly not surprising, to learn that there are...

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Who is UK’s Team? Or more importantly, who is Mexico’s Team?

January 31, 2013
by harvardsports
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by Ben Blatt This is post number two in a series of three posts on NFL fandom. The other two can be read here or here. It’s no secret with the NFL scheduled to play regular season games in London until at least 2016 that...

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One Less Show in Town: the NHL Lockout and NBA Attendance

January 29, 2013
by harvardsports
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By Andrew Mooney It wouldn’t have been much of a surprise to see the Grousbeck family sharing one or two celebratory fist bumps on September 16, the day the NHL officially locked out its players. With one less horse in the...

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Links We Like: Good Reads From the Week of Jan. 21

January 25, 2013
by harvardsports
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Player TOI Usage Charts: Over at Hockey Analytics, David Johnson unveils a new way to visualize Time on Ice in the NHL. The Economics of Sports Insurance: The Economist examines the professional athlete insurance market and the...

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Follow-up: There Is No Red Zone

January 25, 2013
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By Kevin Meers Last week, Kirk Goldsberry and I published an article on Grantland that effectively visualized how a team’s Expected Points change with the line of scrimmage, down, and distance. We wanted to highlight and...

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