As the draft looms tomorrow night, NFL teams are (hopefully) finalizing their draft boards and trying to make plans for every conceivable contingency. Whether or not they want to trade, and in which direction, is surely one of...
Archive - April 2012
by Harry Chiel & Owen Prunskis In their blog post âBelichick and Brady Address the Media: A Statistical Report,â Ben Blatt and Andrew Mooney accurately describe the mind-numbing, yet occult, phenomenon that is a Bill...
by Andrew Mooney This post also appeared on Boston.com here Predictably, the Red Soxâ uneven start to the season brought with it more than its fair share of hand wringing. Thatâs understandable, given the way the beginning...
This is the abstract from the paper âOptimizing Draft Strategies in Fantasy Footballâ 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, letâs try to take over Twitter today.  Click Here to open up our Opening Day livechat. Weâll coordinate different crowdsourcing initiatives throughout the day. Hereâs 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 teamâs while to give up...