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It’d Take Trey Parker A Million Years To Lose, And Other Statistical Oddities Of BASEketball

March 23, 2011
by harvardsports
4 min read
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BASEketball was released in 1998, and while the film did manage to catch director David Zucker before his career free fall had taken him from the heights of Naked Gun to the depths of Scary Movie 4, it was in all other aspects a...

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Reverse-Engineering Our New Computer Overlords: Watson, Jeopardy, and Sports Decision Making

February 17, 2011
by harvardsports
7 min read
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By David Roher Watson closed the pod bay door on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter last night, bringing the IBM robot’s 2-game Jeopardy total to over $77,000.  Humans are still the kings of awful robot-pop-culture references...

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2010: The Year in Injuries

January 26, 2011
by harvardsports
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Unnecessary Inference and Undisputed Authorship: Bill Simmons, Jason Whitlock, and Rick Reilly

November 10, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Ben Blatt In 1964, Mosteller and Wallace published Inference and Disputed Authorship: The Federalist. The paper used statistical analysis to try to determine if James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, or John Jay was the author of...

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What Predicts ATP Tennis Rankings? Hint: It’s Not Break Points

September 22, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Andrew Cohen With the conclusion of the last tennis major of the year, the US Open, and the return of football on Sundays, the sport has been returned to its status as an afterthought for American sports fans. Interestingly...

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Finally, A Post About Horseshoes and Cricket

July 22, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Daniel Adler Which athlete is the furthest from the rest of his sport?  Barry Bonds and his four seasons with on-base-percentages above .500 springs to mind.  So does Wilt Chamberlain and his 1961-62 season in which he...

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HSAC at MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

March 8, 2010
by harvardsports
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Carl Morris’ look at the US Open

October 21, 2009
by harvardsports
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During the time we were transferring to this new blog, our faculty advisor, Carl Morris, analyzed Serena Williams’ outburst at last month’s US Open.  Carl Bialik of the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about...

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