The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective

The official blog of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google Plus
  • Topics
    • NFL Football
    • MLB Baseball
    • NBA Basketball
    • Podcast
    • Tennis
    • Soccer
    • NCAA Football
    • NCAA Basketball
    • NHL Hockey
    • Other Sports
      • Golf
      • Olympics
      • Fantasy Sports
  • About
  • Officers
  • Sponsors
  • Publications
  • Resources
  • NFL Football

Weighing In On NFL Running Backs: Is Bigger Always Better?

December 16, 2009
by harvardsports
6 min read
10 Comments

By Jake Fisher and Elizabeth Fryman NFL running backs come in all shapes and sizes. Relative to other backs, Darren McFadden is tall (6’2) and skinny (210 lbs). Jerome Bettis was average (5’11) and large (255 lbs). The...

Continue reading

  • Golf

How will Tiger do? A Statistical Look at Returns from Scandals Past

December 13, 2009
by harvardsports
5 min read
1 Comment

And that last part is kind of the point of this exercise. When Tiger does come back, the media is going to assign some causality to the current scandal, even if there is none whatsoever. If he's bad early, it'll because he's...

Continue reading

  • Business
  • NBA Basketball

Guest Speaker: Boston Celtics President Rich Gotham

December 11, 2009
by harvardsports
2 min read
3 Comments

By Elizabeth Fryman On the eve of the Boston Celtics’ ninth straight win, HSAC welcomed Celtics Team President Rich Gotham to speak at our last meeting of the semester. Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new...

Continue reading

  • MLB Baseball

A New Way to Measure Payroll Efficiency (And what it says about the Yankees and Parity)

December 10, 2009
by harvardsports
4 min read
2 Comments

By David Roher Note: This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post. Did the 2009 New York Yankees have the most efficient payroll in baseball? According to some recent research we’ve done, they did indeed. Just...

Continue reading

  • NBA Basketball

Consistency: The One Thing The Nets Are Good At? Part 1 of a Series.

December 8, 2009
by harvardsports
4 min read
7 Comments

By David Roher Consistency is funny. We usually consider it a good thing to have, and we remember prolonged, steady excellence for a long time. Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hit streak. Cal Ripken’s 2,632 consecutive games...

Continue reading

  • NCAA Football

Should Pitt Have Pulled a Westbrook? Does Brian Kelly Play Madden?

December 5, 2009
by harvardsports
5 min read
5 Comments

By Daniel Adler This article also appears on Huffington Post. Today’s de facto Big East Championship between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati provides us here at HSAC another chance to analyze some interesting late game coaching...

Continue reading

  • NFL Football

Pass the Victory, Please

December 1, 2009
by harvardsports
3 min read
4 Comments

By Daniel Adler Does throwing for over 300-yard mean success for the passer’s team?  It does, especially lately, according to an article by Michael David Smith in the Wall Street Journal.  Recently, the winning percentage for...

Continue reading

  • NFL Football

The NFL Flops on Thanksgiving, Again

November 27, 2009
by harvardsports
2 min read
4 Comments

By Jonathan Adler Is the NFL taking its Thanksgiving fans for granted? It seems that year after year, the Thanksgiving Day schedule features lousy matchups and even lousier outcomes. This year, America was treated to three...

Continue reading

  • MLB Baseball

Strikeouts and the Anna Karenina Principle, or: Why K’s Don’t Hurt MLB Batters

November 25, 2009
by harvardsports
6 min read
18 Comments

By David Roher “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So begins Leo Tolstoy’s 1878 masterpiece, Anna Karenina, an engrossing novel about late 19th century statistical...

Continue reading

  • NFL Football

Listening to Larry Johnson: How Good Was Your Head Coach as a Player?

November 23, 2009
by harvardsports
3 min read
3 Comments

By Jonathan Adler Former Kansas City Chiefs RB Larry Johnson was frustrated with his head coach, Todd Haley, and decided to vent via his Twitter account. The former Chief announced to the online community that, “my father got...

Continue reading

Previous 1 … 71 72 73 74 75 76 Next

Follow HSAC on Twitter

My Tweets

Like HSAC on Facebook

Like HSAC on Facebook

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Copyright © 2025. Created by Meks. Powered by WordPress.
  • Topics
    • NFL Football
    • MLB Baseball
    • NBA Basketball
    • Podcast
    • Tennis
    • Soccer
    • NCAA Football
    • NCAA Basketball
    • NHL Hockey
    • Other Sports
      • Golf
      • Olympics
      • Fantasy Sports
  • About
  • Officers
  • Sponsors
  • Publications
  • Resources
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google Plus
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d