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Can Kentucky Be Perfect?

January 9, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Julian Ryan Calipari’s Kentucky Wildcats are primed for a run at greatness this season. With a deluge of McDonald’s All-Americans on the roster, Coach Cal has been dominating with his platoon system, and even the loss of...

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Can Kobe Catch the Mailman?

December 15, 2014
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By Julian Ryan This past weekend Kobe Bryant passed Michael Jordan for third on the career NBA points scoring leaderboard. While perhaps he has never quite been the player MJ was, his resume is undeniably impressive and he will...

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A Gambler’s Guide to Harvard-Yale

November 20, 2014
by harvardsports
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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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How Long Will the Philadelphia 76ers Keep Losing?

November 13, 2014
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By Julian Ryan The Philadelphia 76ers are really bad at basketball. It’s starting to get awkward. We thought last year’s version of random dudes that actively tanked was bad, but is it possible this season’s team is even...

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Winners’ Take vs Losers’ Take: A Mathematical Look at Pick-up Basketball Rules

December 21, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Ben Blatt Before starting a pick-up basketball game the question usually arises: “Are we playing winners’ take or losers’ take?”. The difference in rules is that with winners’ take the team that...

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Optimal H-O-R-S-E Strategy

December 8, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Ben Blatt (You can also a version of this post in the Wall Street Journal here) For someone with so little basketball skill, I’ve been playing a lot of H-O-R-S-E in the basketball/squash court of Lowell House basement...

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What is the chance of an NBA comeback when down by 35?

December 25, 2009
by harvardsports
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By Professor Carl Morris The Sacramento Kings came back to win on Monday night (Dec 21), when down by 35 points against the Bulls in Chicago with 20 minutes and 50 seconds (20:50) left.  When two even NBA teams play the...

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Tony Sparano: Not One for Counting or Brilliant Mathematician?

November 3, 2009
by harvardsports
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By Daniel Adler Here at the Sports Analysis Collective, we often do some pretty complex analysis.  However, this post is about something at which this guy excels.  One thing that has always interested me is a coach’s...

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The Swing Game

October 31, 2009
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Update: An astute commenter below pointed out a key mathematical error that I made. The corrected values on the table are in italics. It seems that every game in a short series gets classified as either a...

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