By Brendan Kent Home courts aren’t the fortresses they once were in the NBA. In a piece from 2015, ESPN NBA Insider Tom Haberstroh highlighted a general decline in home winning percentage since 1975, and a sharp decline since...
Archive - March 2017
By Andrew Puopolo While many have kept their eyes fixated on NCAA March Madness and filling out (and subsequently tearing up) their brackets, another major winter sport has quietly worked its way towards its own Madness. Although...
By Kurt Bullard We are less than 24 hours away from the greatest four-day sporting spectacle known to man. While the games themselves are non-stop, exciting action, the hook that brings in the masses is obviously bracket...
By Benedict Brady During the week leading up to the start of March Madness, hundreds and hundreds of articles are written on understanding the bracket, dissecting which upsets are the most likely and modeling...
By Andrew Puopolo This past weekend, Duke and Michigan were somewhat surprising winners of the ACC and Big 10 tournaments as 8 and 5 seeds, respectively. This made me wonder, are teams that win their conference...
By William Ezekowitz Preseason rankings may seem irrelevant when it comes to college basketball, but they are surprisingly important. For example, they are just as predictive of ending up in the Final Four as the current AP Poll...
By William Ezekowitz March is complicated. What follows is an attempt to make sense of the madness, and to give you solid statistical grounding in order to justify your decisions; that way, when your bracket is ruined, it can be...
By Henry Johnson March Madness is here, and with it are high hopes and lost revenue. Last night, the selection committee released the bracket for the 2017 tournament, and the ensuing uproar was enough to drown out even the...
By Craig Mascarenhas Debating the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) for a particular sport is one of sport’s most common and probably endless pastimes, and one that by definition is subjective. Opining on the issue is likely to lose...
This past weekend, the sports industry converged on Boston’s Hynes Convention Center for the 11th annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. A few of our members attended and decided to share their thoughts on the...