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Thursday Night Football: Better Than You Think

May 24, 2021
by harvardsports
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Thursday Night Football has been portrayed as “the ultimate sacrifice”, but it is actually better than fans and players think. No matter how entertainment is defined, whether in terms of scoring, team quality, penalties...

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  • MLB Baseball
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Ben Zauzmer: New York Mets Director of Analytics & Oscar Forecaster – HSAC Pod Episode 6

April 19, 2021
by harvardsports
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On this episode, David Arkow talks with Ben Zauzmer, The New York Mets Director of Baseball Analytics. They discuss baseball analytics, how to make it in the industry, and Ben’s Oscar analytics and his predictions for...

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HSAC’s Review of the 2017 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

March 6, 2017
by harvardsports
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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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Elo Ratings for The Challenge: Rivals III

May 4, 2016
by harvardsports
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By Harrison Chase The opening episode of America’s fifth major sport, the Challenge, premieres on MTV tonight. As a sports analytics blog, it would be almost unethical for us not provide some statistical insight into what...

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Sports Interviews: Let’s “Talk About” Who Talks the Most

March 11, 2015
by harvardsports
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by Tomo Lazovich Over the past month, my colleague Adam Gilfix has put together great analyses of sports interviews and some of the phrases that have become standard in interview questions, like “talk about…” and “how big...

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The Most Boring Part of the Sports Year

March 9, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Dylan McDonough In mid-February, the weekly HSAC meeting was opened with the icebreaker: What’s your favorite underrated sport to watch? It was a funny, unusual opener. Icebreakers are typically bold predictions for...

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Sports Interviews: Let’s “Talk About” “How Big” They Are

February 26, 2015
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By Adam Gilfix About three weeks ago, I put up a post on that annoying phrase so often used by the media: “talk about.”  Having broken down its prevalence using metrics on the percentage of interviews and questions that...

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  • NCAA Basketball

Boston: The Most Successful Sports Town of the 21st Century

February 9, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Harrison Chase Full disclosure: I am a Boston fan. As many of you may have heard, the Patriots won the Super Bowl last week, their 4th since 2001, and cemented their place as one of the best football teams ever. While some...

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Can We Talk More About “Talk About”?: The Numbers Behind the Talk

February 6, 2015
by harvardsports
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by Adam Gilfix A few weeks ago, an article by Grantland writer Bryan Curtis addressing the prevalence of sports’ most dreaded question, the Talk About, was sent around our group’s mailing list.  Watching a press conference...

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  • NFL Football

HSAC on Grantland: There Is No Red Zone

January 18, 2013
by harvardsports
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HSAC appeared on Grantland today, examining how Expected Points in the NFL change across game states and how teams can use this information to win games. Read it here. Share this:TwitterFacebookRedditLinkedInEmailLike this:Like...

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