By Bill Lotter How would you determine who had the best performance at the NFL Combine? If one player had a faster 40, but another was quicker in the shuttle, who would you say performed better? Ā While it might seem like a...
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By Austin Tymins and Nick Holmes Whether itās partying at exclusive nightclubs before Sunday morning games, or fielding the advances of attractive celebrities, professional athletes typically deal with much larger distractions...
By Matt Goldberg, Ā Adam Gilfix, Steven Rachesky, Nathaniel Ver Steeg āDefense wins championshipsā and āthe best offense is a good defenseā are two of the most common adages in sports. The timelessness of these...
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...
By Kurt Bullard Itās hard to believe weāre only two years removed from what might have been the greatest single-season performance from a quarterback of all time: 5,477 yards, 55 touchdowns. And yet, the Broncos enter the...
By Harrison Chase Over the past two years we have introduced, updated, and modified a logistic regression model to predict which NFL coach will be fired by the end of the season. As the season is nearly over and āBlack...
By Thomas Negron This past Sunday, Bill Belichick did the unthinkable, he chose to kickoff in overtime. Controversy erupted as there seemed to be communication errors between the referees and Patriots Special Teams Captain...
By Harrison Chase Late yesterday, CBS Sports put out an article claiming that the Patriots were winning coin flips at āan impossible rateā. Whatās more, they publicized it with the lead: āHave the Patriots found a way to...
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 onĀ various sites. After reading an article at 538 last...
By Kurt Bullard Division games are an interesting beast. Three times a year, each team in the NFL will go up a unit which it has already faced. The effect of playing a team which you have already āseenā poses some interesting...