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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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...
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...
HSAC appeared on Grantland today, examining how Expected Points in the NFL change across game states and how teams can use this information to win games. Read it here. Share this:TwitterFacebookRedditLinkedInEmailLike this:Like...
We’re unveiling a weekly feature in which we compile our favorite pieces of sports analysis from the week that was. Here goes nothing: Nate Silver’s Analysis of the Baseball Hall of Fame Snubs:Â Nate takes a closer...
By Kevin Meers This post analyzes who deserves the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award (spoiler alert: don’t read the title) based on some different criteria than most people have used. I want to focus on the word...
By Kevin Meers Almost everyone who makes predictions about the NFL tends to be overconfident: we think we are more accurate and more precise than we actually are. We like to think we know just how good every team is before the...
By Andrew Mooney For interested fan or gambler, the NFL playoffs can be infinitely maddening to comprehend. Those Cincinnati Bengals that had won seven of their last eight? Well, they’re out, held to just -6 passing yards in...
By Andrew Mooney A couple weeks ago, I discussed the implications of one of the NFL’s recent rule changes, namely the movement of kickoffs from the 30-yard line to the 35. Though we don’t have quite as much evidence for it...
Yesterday, Aaron Schatz issued a challenge to his readership to prove the existence of a “trap game” or a “letdown game”. Both terms are thrown around in the media for almost every sport all the time, but I have not seen...