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Predicting the NFL Draft Using Seven Numbers

April 29, 2015
by harvardsports
4 min read
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by Bill Lotter I know you’ve probably seen 17 mock drafts, so I’m gonna keep this short and sweet.  Back in February, I built models to predict where a player will be drafted and how well they will do in the NFL using...

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NFL Draft: Do BCS Champions Make NFL Busts?

April 24, 2015
by harvardsports
3 min read
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by Henry Johnson With the NFL draft less than one week away, teams are scrambling to determine which characteristics of potential picks matter and which ones don’t. One possible trap to which teams might fall prey is an...

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Does NHL Playoff Seeding Matter?

April 22, 2015
by harvardsports
3 min read
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by Kurt Bullard NHL Playoff season is upon us, and with it, the unpredictability of the chase for the Stanley Cup. In 2012, the Los Angeles Kings not only won the Stanley Cup as an eight seed out of the Western Conference, but...

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The Steve Kerr Effect

April 13, 2015
by harvardsports
6 min read
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By Harrison Chase Coming off a fifty win season last year, the Golden State Warriors fired coach Mark Jackson and brought in unproven Steve Kerr. The results have nothing short of amazing. They have been the best team in the...

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NCAA Tournament: Which Rounds See the Biggest Improvement in Seeds?

March 26, 2015
by harvardsports
2 min read
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by Henry Johnson The NCAA Tournament’s round of 16 teams is deemed sweet for good reason: it’s when the matchups heat up. Gone are the pretenders, the double digit seeds biting at the ankles of favorites, the one-round...

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“That was a close one!”: Margin of Victory in the NCAA Tournament Round of 64

March 21, 2015
by harvardsports
3 min read
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by Tomo Lazovich The past two days of this year’s NCAA tournament have been filled with upsets, close calls, and nail biting finishes. This round of 64 has been so exciting that I began to wonder how close the games of the 2015...

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What are the Chances Your Team Knocks Off Kentucky?

March 18, 2015
by harvardsports
4 min read
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by Harrison Chase Kentucky is by far the best team in the nation, and the clear favorite to win the NCAA tournament, no matter what metric you look at. Still, even being the biggest favorite in history, KenPom, one of the premier...

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HSAC’s 65 Facts: March Madness 2015

March 17, 2015
by harvardsports
11 min read
2 Comments

by Will Ezekowitz It is important to remember that statistically predicting the NCAA tournament, despite what FiveThirtyEight and others may tell you, is largely a fool’s errand. Most of these games are close to coin tosses...

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How Does One Year’s Tournament Performance Affect the Next?

March 17, 2015
by harvardsports
3 min read
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  by Kurt Bullard After finishing the 2014 season 35-1 and running the table in the conference, Wichita State earned a one-seed to the dismay of mid-major haters around the country. The Shockers drew the No. 8 Kentucky in...

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Conference Bias in the NCAA Tournament

March 16, 2015
by harvardsports
3 min read
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By Kurt Bullard With the brackets now set and Harvard cementing its status as an Ivy League dynasty with four straight NCAA Tournament bids, over 40 million people will begin to fill out brackets for the chance to win bragging...

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