By William Ezekowitz Note: An earlier version of this article was published on rushthecourt This year the SEC was supposed to belong to Kentucky. The Cats entered the season with a new crop of highly touted freshmen, and Ben...
By Harrison Chase One of the newest sources of data for the NBA has been the SportVu tracking data, which tracks players 25 times each second, recording their position in x,y coordinates as well as the x,y and z coordinates of...
By Jason Light Aroldis Chapman has brought a lot of attention toward the Yankee bullpen, with descriptors like “dominant” and a “three-headed monster” being thrown around. But as good as Chapman and the other two stars of...
Heading into the playoffs, multiple teams can make a claim that they are the favorites to win it all, and even those who just barely snuck in have hopes. We decided to look at several of the playoff teams from an analytical...
By Kurt Bullard It’s hard to believe we’re only two years removed from what might have been the greatest single-season performance from a quarterback of all time: 5,477 yards, 55 touchdowns. And yet, the Broncos enter the...
The following post is just part of a larger project on predicting pitcher injuries. Read the full paper here: Predicting Pitcher Injuries By Kurt Bullard, Jake Meagher, and Declan Garvey Over the past five years, over 23...
By Harrison Chase Over the past two years we have introduced, updated, and modified a logistic regression model to predict which NFL coach will be fired by the end of the season. As the season is nearly over and “Black...
By Thomas Negron This past Sunday, Bill Belichick did the unthinkable, he chose to kickoff in overtime. Controversy erupted as there seemed to be communication errors between the referees and Patriots Special Teams Captain...
By John Acton Because the NFL has a small sample size and football games are too physically draining to schedule extra tiebreakers, hard-core NFL fans are well-accustomed to accounting for tiebreaking procedures before and during...
By Thomas Negron If you talked to a Leicester supporter this time last year, they would probably not describe their Christmas as being merry. Leicester, who were playing in the Premier League for the first time in 10 seasons, sat...