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 talk—at least in the Boston area—has centered around what the Boston Celtics should do...
By Kurt Bullard One of the lasting images from this year’s rendition of March Madness was Malachi Richardson of No. 10 Syracuse “ going mad” 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 Globe’s 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 weekend’s exciting round of 16 in the NCAA Men’s 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 Hollinger’s PER statistic has been a widely-used advanced metric that attempts to quantify a player’s overall performance. While the statistic has some practical use, one of its...
By Harrison Chase The opening episode of America’s fifth major sport, the Challenge, premieres on MTV tonight. As a sports analytics blog, it would be almost unethical for us not provide some statistical insight into what...
By Harrison Chase, Matt Goldberg, and Kurt Bullard Earlier this year, we debuted NFL POWER rankings based on win probability curves. The general idea was that we would used a modified version of the Colley method, where instead...