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Stone Cold Stats: WWE Elo Ratings

August 17, 2015
by harvardsports
5 min read
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By Harrison Chase and Henry Johnson With SummerSlam 2015 around the corner, it’s worth stating the obvious:  WWE is complicated. Professional wrestling is stuffed with backstories, rivalries, and plot twists so numerous that...

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Mariota’s Still Human (And a Rookie)

August 14, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Kurt Bullard If you’ve seen or read any coverage on the Tennessee Titans this preseason, you’re familiar with the leading story that Marcus Mariota has yet to throw an interception in his 186 attempts 7-on-7 drills. Any...

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NFL Coaching Hot Seat: Preseason Edition

August 14, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Harrison Chase and Kurt Bullard Last year, we wrote various posts on creating a model to predict which NFL coaches would be fired at the end of the season. So, with nothing to do but wait for the regular season to begin, we...

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Strokes Gained Tournaments: Will a top ball-striker conquer Whistling Straits?

August 13, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Austin Tymins The picturesque Whistling Straits, a course not unfamiliar with hosting major tournaments, will host this week’s PGA Championship. And like nearly all professional events, some skill sets will be more suitable...

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Warning: Knuckleballs on the Edge of the Strike Zone are Closer than they Appear

August 12, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Adam Gilfix @AdamGilfix JIM MCISAAC/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA The New York Yankees have seen a 5.5-game lead over the Toronto Blue Jays collapse to 0.5 games from one Tuesday to the next by dropping five of six.  This...

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Team “Form”, Recency Bias, and Regression to the Mean

August 11, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Daniel Silberwasser The term “form” is often used in soccer to refer to either a player or a team’s recent performance. A key aspect to the idea of form is that form influences future success. For example, one might say...

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Diminishing Returns? Examining the effect of road-trip longevity in MLB

July 30, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Brendan Kent A while back, I wrote a piece on travel distance in Major League Soccer. It got me thinking about which aspects of travel affect a team’s performance. It would seem that as a trip progresses, travel might take...

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Corruption in Serie B Soccer

July 28, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Harrison Chase Italian soccer is infamously riddled with corruption, with multiple scandals over the past decade. Although various forms of match fixing have occurred, the match fixing  described in Joe...

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Evaluating EPL Bookmakers

July 27, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Daniel Silberwasser With legal sports betting becoming a possibility in the U.S., it might be in our financial interest to investigate the track records of various U.K. soccer bookmakers. Using bookmaker data on the English...

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Foul Play in the EPL?

July 24, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Daniel Silberwasser Home field advantage has become a crucial element of professional soccer. The final matches of major tournaments such as the UEFA Champions League are played in predetermined third party stadiums, and...

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