By Carlos Pena-Lobel With the NBA Finals involving some of the best teams of all time about to start, the French Open has been more of an afterthought.  However, last year I wrote some Python code to simulate tennis matches...
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With âThe Rematchâ of the 2015 NBA Finals finally upon us tonight, we in the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective wanted to take a look at the upcoming series ĂĄ la old Grantland shootarounds (RIP), using a predominantly...
By Kurt Bullard With Brandon Ingram and Ben Simmons slated to go with the first two picks of the 2016 NBA draft, a lot of the pre-draft talkâat least in the Boston areaâhas centered around what the Boston Celtics should do...
By Kurt Bullard One of the lasting images from this yearâs rendition of March Madness was Malachi Richardson of No. 10 Syracuse â going madâ against No. 1 Virginia in the Elite Eight. The freshman put up 21 second-half...
By Jason Light, Liam Cleary, Kayley Leonard, Zayne Matulis, Noah Reimers, Davon Robertson, and Jocelyn Skoler The inspiration for this article came from our conversations with the Boston Globeâs Shira Springer following an...
By Kurt Bullard After Pittsburgh Penguins starting goalie Matt Murray allowed four goals in the first two periods of Game 4 against the Tampa Bay Lightning, head coach Mike Sullivan brought in Marc-Andre Fleury to start the third...
By Austin Tymins After this weekendâs exciting round of 16 in the NCAA Menâs Lacrosse Championship, I have decided to give a preview of the upcoming quarterfinals while referencing a few new quantitative measures of team...
By Austin Tymins In a previous post of mine, I introduced the method of Pythagorean expectation to college lacrosse. While this was a marginal improvement over simple winning percentage, it is possible to go even further into the...
By Noah Reimers In 2011, Alex Koenig looked at the factors that affected attendance rates in college football. He concluded that sustained winning and undergraduate enrollment were very important to the capacity of the stadium. I...
By Kurt Bullard Ever since its inception, John Hollingerâs PER statistic has been a widely-used advanced metric that attempts to quantify a playerâs overall performance. While the statistic has some practical use, one of its...