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NBA Payroll Efficiency: Which Teams are the Smartest Spenders?

November 25, 2020
by harvardsports
13 min read
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Which teams are the most efficient spenders in the NBA? While teams like Utah and San Antonio have become small-market success stories, teams like the New York Knicks are woefully inefficient.

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Play Moneyball! Determining MLB’s Most Efficient Spenders

September 29, 2020
by harvardsports
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by Danny Blumenthal AP / Designed by Mario Paulis Editor’s Note: HSAC is excited to partner with Sportico, a leading sports business publication. You can read this article, as well as more outstanding...

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After Years of Failed Free Agency Pitches, the Dallas Mavericks Finally Have Their Stars

November 2, 2019
by harvardsports
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By Buddy Scott: The Dallas Mavericks finished the 2018-2019 season with a record of 33-49. Despite finishing 15 games back of the #8 seed in the Western Conference, the Mavs experienced a surprising number of bright spots. They...

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HSAC’s Review of the 2017 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

March 6, 2017
by harvardsports
5 min read
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This past weekend, the sports industry converged on Boston’s Hynes Convention Center for the 11th annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. A few of our members attended and decided to share their thoughts on the...

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

February 13, 2015
by harvardsports
6 min read
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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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NBA Franchise Valuations: The Business of Basketball

July 31, 2014
by harvardsports
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By Austin Tymins As a result of the Donald Sterling controversy, the Los Angeles Clippers went up for sale in what quickly descended into a bidding war. Former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer ended up with the highest bid for...

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Profile of an NFL Fanbase: Are all 13 year old girls bandwagon fans?

February 1, 2013
by harvardsports
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by Ben Blatt This is the final post in a series of three on NFL fandom. The first two can be read here and here. To the typical male football fan it may be depressing, but certainly not surprising, to learn that there are...

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Who is Really America’s Team?

January 31, 2013
by harvardsports
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by Ben Blatt Author’s Note: This post was prepared long ago, but Facebook itself coincidentally published a very similar study on Monday. There are many different findings between the two studies however, so I encourage you...

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Russell Wilson: 2012’s Most Valuable Player

January 14, 2013
by harvardsports
3 min read
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By Kevin Meers This post analyzes who deserves the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award (spoiler alert: don’t read the title) based on some different criteria than most people have used. I want to focus on the word...

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Finding the True Border Between Yankee and Red Sox Nation Using Facebook Data

August 17, 2012
by harvardsports
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by Ben Blatt A version of this post can be read in the Wall Street Journal here. Like all sports rivalries, picking a side in the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry is almost entirely geographic. Everyone knows as you drive through the...

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