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Borussia Dortmund: Bad or Just Unlucky?

February 17, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Brendan Kent Just last season, Borussia Dortmund placed second in the Bundesliga. The year before that, they also placed second and reached the Champions League final. And in the two seasons before that, they won the...

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Evaluating the Best Coach-Quarterback Combos

January 28, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Harrison Chase For all of the 21st century, the New England Patriots have been a dominant force in the NFL. Since Coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady first joined forces in 2001, the duo has seen 12 playoff...

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Premier League: Do Derbies Feature More Aggression?

January 23, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Brendan Kent The Premier League has seen an influx of foreign talent in recent years. Some would argue that as a result, derby matches don’t have the passion and aggression that they used to. These detractors of modern...

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A Gambler’s Guide to Harvard-Yale

November 20, 2014
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By Julian Ryan This Saturday Harvard will host Yale for the 131st iteration of The Game. Each school’s student body will descend upon the campus and at the end of the day there will be a winner, but who will win and by how...

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Conference Bias in College Football

October 27, 2014
by harvardsports
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By Austin Tymins This past week, four of the top five teams in the Associated Press College Football Poll hailed from the SEC West Division. This has led many, such as Nebraska coach Bo Pelini, to question whether ESPN’s...

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Assessing the Value of NFL Punters

October 24, 2014
by harvardsports
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By Austin Tymins In the 94-year history of the National Football League over 14,000 games have been played. And in every game but two a punt has occurred (the recent Packers-Bears game in Week 4 was one of these rare...

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Spatial Analysis of Corners

September 4, 2014
by harvardsports
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By Daniel Silberwasser Jose Mourinho, one of the most successful soccer managers of all time, once asked: “How many countries can you think of where a corner kick is treated with the same applause as a goal?” The self...

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Extend the NFL Season? 18 Weeks, Not 18 Games

February 25, 2011
by harvardsports
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By Ari Rubin One of the key points of contention in NFL’s collective-bargaining has been the issue of an extended, 18-game season. While owners would like to see the increased revenue of two extra weeks, players worry about the...

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  • NFL Football

4th and 1 Football Camp

July 27, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Daniel Adler This summer, I spent a week in mid-July in East Texas teaching SAT math at a football/life skills/SAT camp founded by Detroit Lions Assistant Secondary Coach (and Harvard Law+Kennedy school alum), Daron Roberts...

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Where Every Team Is Above Average: Home-Field Advantage and its Effects on Revenue

March 7, 2010
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Had an incredible time at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference yesterday. I got to tell so many people how long I’d been reading their books and blogs, or how important they were to my becoming interested in...

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