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: Click to share on X (Opens in new...
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:Ā Nate takes a closer...
By Kevin Meers This post analyzes who deserves the NFLās Most ValuableĀ Player award (spoiler alert: donāt 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, theyāre out, held to just -6 passing yards in...
By Andrew Mooney A couple weeks ago, IĀ discussed the implicationsĀ of one of the NFLās recent rule changes, namely the movement of kickoffs from the 30-yard line to the 35. Though we donāt have quite as much evidence for it...
Yesterday, Aaron Schatz issued a challenge to his readership to prove the existence of a ātrap gameā or a āletdown gameā. Both terms are thrown around in the media for almost every sport all the time, but I have not seen...
It is the week of Thanksgiving, which means that we are in the midst of Rivalry Game season for college football. Of course, the most important game was played last Saturday, but I am given to understand that several other...
By Harry Chiel Every so often, a playoff series in the NHL, MLB, or NBA will be fought between a team that has just come off of a sweep and a team that has barely survived a competitive 7-game series. Ā While the latter team is...
By Andrew Mooney Unveiled for the first time this year, the NFLās season-long slate of Thursday night games has thus far produced mixed results, to put it kindly. The series is a not-so-subtle pimping of the NFLās own premium...