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NFL Stat-Around: Who Will Win the Super Bowl?

January 7, 2016
by harvardsports
12 min read
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Heading into the playoffs, multiple teams can make a claim that they are the favorites to win it all, and even those who just barely snuck in have hopes. We decided to look at several of the playoff teams from an analytical...

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The Patriots Have a 4.3% Chance of Going 19-0

November 19, 2015
by harvardsports
3 min read
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By Harrison Chase and Austin Tymins After the Patriots narrowly escaped the Meadowlands with a win this Sunday afternoon, Ian O’Connor of ESPN suggested that readers would be smart to bet on the Patriots going 19-0, saying...

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The Seven Tiers of NFL Teams

November 5, 2015
by harvardsports
5 min read
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By Harrison Chase and Austin Tymins Over the past two weeks, we have been putting out articles with our POWER rankings for the 2015 NFL season, which are based on average win expectancy over the course of the game. While we have...

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Introducing POWER Rankings for the NFL

October 22, 2015
by harvardsports
7 min read
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By Harrison Chase and Austin Tymins One of the coolest things to come out of sports analytics in the past few years has been the win expectancy curves that have popped up on various sites. After reading an article at 538 last...

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Grading the Accuracy of ESPN and Football Outsiders’ Power Rankings

February 12, 2013
by harvardsports
3 min read
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By Cameron Dowd Hoards of NFL fans obsess over their team’s “Power Ranking”. Every Tuesday, thousands of people flock to the comments section of ESPN’s newest Power Rankings – mostly yelling through their keyboards...

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