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HSAC’s 2021 NFL Draft Report

April 23, 2021
by harvardsports
1 min read
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Tucker Boynton and Ella Papanek cap off a semester of research with an in-depth breakdown of every NFL team's trade performances, position preferences, and overall success in the NFL Draft.

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Coming Up Just Short: The Marginal Effect of Being a First Round Pick in the NBA Draft

September 14, 2012
by harvardsports
5 min read
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Inspired by the work of my economics professor Roland G. Fryer on the marginal effect of getting into one of the three premier exam high schools in New York City on academic achievement, I decided to take a look at the effect on...

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Dissecting the draft: What’s a draft pick worth?

June 28, 2012
by harvardsports
4 min read
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by Andrew Mooney and Alex Koenig This post can also be seen on Boston.com here.  The Celtics are in an interesting position heading into Thursday’s NBA draft. It’s arguable that it is time for the team to rebuild; three of...

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  • NFL Football

Why Any NFL GM Who Reads Bleacher Report Should Be Fired: A Response to “Why Any NFL GM Who Uses the Harvard NFL Pick Value Chart Should Be Fired”

May 29, 2012
by harvardsports
5 min read
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In April, a writer for the Bleacher Report (BR) attempted to critique a new pick value chart for the NFL draft that I created and that HSAC published. There are many legitimate criticisms of my work in that article that are worth...

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Equally Inaccurate: An Analysis of Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay’s Draft Rankings

May 25, 2012
by harvardsports
6 min read
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ESPN Dallas

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Don’t Trade Up in the NFL Draft

April 25, 2012
by harvardsports
3 min read
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As the draft looms tomorrow night, NFL teams are (hopefully) finalizing their draft boards and trying to make plans for every conceivable contingency. Whether or not they want to trade, and in which direction, is surely one of...

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  • NFL Football

Analyzing the NFL Draft: The Safest Positions to Target in the First Round

April 9, 2012
by harvardsports
6 min read
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by Robert Bedetti ESPN is once again allowing Mel Kiper to flaunt his homemade haircut and scowl on live television, which can only mean one thing: draft day is approaching. As we count down the days to the start of the draft...

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Dissecting the NBA Draft Lottery

April 4, 2012
by harvardsports
4 min read
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By Alex Koenig The NBA Draft Lottery was instituted by the league in 1985 after accusations that teams were deliberately tanking to secure the first pick in the draft. The logic went that it was worth a team’s while to give up...

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Running Back Evaluation in the NFL Draft: Part II

March 22, 2012
by harvardsports
4 min read
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by Sam Waters Last week we looked at expected production for running backs based on pick number in the NFL draft. Using a logistic regression, we found the price NFL teams currently pay in terms of draft picks for a given amount...

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Running Back Evaluation in the NFL Draft: Part I

March 13, 2012
by harvardsports
7 min read
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by Sam Waters Last week, the Houston Texans signed running back Arian Foster to a five year, $43.5 million deal. Foster, an undrafted free agent out of Tennessee in 2009, was toiling in obscurity heading into the 2010 season...

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