by Nick Jaroszewicz and Ben Blatt When the NBA Slam Dunk Contest was created in 1984 to be a part of the NBA All-Star Weekend it featured basketball legends Julius Erving and Clyde Drexler. The following year Michael Jordan...
This was post number five as part of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective’s Linsanity Day. You can read the other posts here, here, here, or here. By Andrew Mooney, Ben Zauzmer and Chris Bruce It may have tapered off...
This was post number four as part of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective’s Linsanity Day. You can read the other posts here, here, here, or here. by Janet Song We’ve all heard about how Jeremy Lin was overlooked...
This was post number two as part of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective’s Linsanity Day. You can read the other posts here, here, here, or here. by Harry Chiel and Ben Blatt In his meteoric rise over the past two...
This was post number one as part of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective’s Linsanity Day. You can read the other posts here, here, here, or here. by Andrew Mooney On February 9th, John Hollinger’s Player Efficiency...
There are many times when it is acceptable, even encouraged, to let someone else score, like playing basketball with your younger brother or sister. Letting your opponent score in the National Football League almost never...
HSAC would like to thank reporter Ken Rosenthal for being our guest speaker at this Wednesday’s meeting. After talking to the group about his experience as a writer and his views on how sabermetrics have changed reporting...
by Nick Jaroszewicz What is a goon? In 2005 John Cheney, then the coach of the Temple University basketball team, sent in “seldom used” forward Nehemiah Ingram in order to give hard fouls and send a message. While Ingram is...
In baseball, wins above replacement (WAR) is one of the best statistics for summarizing the total value of any player on the field. Using Expected Points Added (EPA) and Approximate Value (AV), this post explores the possibility...
By Kevin Meers With the new collective bargaining agreement came the rookie wage scale and a lengthy discussion of how the rookie wage scale would change draft strategy. Using salary data from www.spotrac.com, this analysis...