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Red Sox Achieve One of Rarest Feats in MLB History

June 17, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Adam Gilfix Late last night after marveling about the incredible NBA Finals, I tweeted a seemingly random baseball question about 3 teammates each hitting a double and triple in the same game, and thought that I could probably...

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All-Time Most Pivotal Plays in a World Series Game

February 19, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Adam Gilfix Recently, my fellow HSAC contributor and friend Carlos Pena-Lobel put up an article on the most pivotal plays in Super Bowl history, using the basis of win probability added.  That got me thinking, and with...

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Have MLB’s Efforts to Preserve Competitive Balance Done Enough?

February 13, 2015
by harvardsports
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by Evan Zepfel Since the advent of free agency in 1975, certain Major League Baseball teams have benefited from the ability to acquire talented players through free agency.  This system, however, rewards the teams with the...

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Should Alex Gordon Have Been Sent Home?

October 31, 2014
by harvardsports
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By David Freed Everyone saw it—with the Kansas City Royals down to their last out of October, facing the seemingly un-hittable Madison Bumgarner on the mound, Alex Gordon had a strike of luck: his blooper into center field got...

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Smart Slugging: Evaluating the Power-Strikeouts Tradeoff

September 22, 2014
by harvardsports
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By Kurt Bullard In baseball, it is taken as a given that players who hit for power tend to strike out at a higher rate than those who make their living off simply reaching base. A common metric used in portraying this phenomenon...

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HSAC on Gammons Daily

September 5, 2013
by harvardsports
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HSAC member Oliver Kim analyzed Ike Davis’s career over at Gammons Daily. A quick tease to whet your appetite… “On Saturday, the Mets’ sometimes-first baseman Ike Davis strained his oblique, potentially ending...

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The Reading Level of Sports Writing

May 22, 2012
by harvardsports
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by Ben Blatt The last time we played around with sportswriter analytics, we wondered if we could algorithmically determine the author of a column based on his favorite words (we could). For a followup, I decided to look at the...

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