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Dream Over: How the U.S. Could Lose

August 8, 2012
by harvardsports
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By Andrew Mooney On Wednesday, the U.S. men’s basketball team begins its gold medal defense in earnest as they square off against Australia in the quarterfinals, a contest the U.S. has been given 1/100 odds to win, according to...

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Slowly but Surely, International Basketball Catching Up to US

July 30, 2012
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by Andrew Mooney One of the biggest yawn-fests of a story in the buildup to this year’s Olympic basketball tournament was the idle bantering between this year’s US team and the original Dream Team from 1992. It seemed fitting...

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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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Shaq Attack: The Rise of Babies Named ‘Shaquille’

May 2, 2012
by harvardsports
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by Anthony Zonfrelli A new phenomenon is just starting to become apparent in the High School basketball circuit – the number of NBA hopefuls that are named Shaquille. Perhaps the most notable of the bunch is Shaquille...

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Lin: Bigger Than Tebow?

February 22, 2012
by harvardsports
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This was post number five as part of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective’s Linsanity Day. You can read the other posts here, here, here, or here. By Andrew Mooney, Ben Zauzmer and Chris Bruce It may have tapered off...

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Scott Howard vs. Teen Wolf or Steve Nash vs. ‘Nique Wilkins

March 28, 2011
by harvardsports
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by Alex Koenig The debate over Teen Wolf is at bottom a debate over the soul of basketball, and that’s one reason even people who are not Bill Simmons talk about the movie today. Let’s just state the question...

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Calculating The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air’s Usage Rate, And What It Can Tell Us About Ball Hogs

March 24, 2011
by harvardsports
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Before Will Smith got his big break as the title character in Hitch, he was a little-known television actor on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a gritty early-’90s drama about class and race in America, starring Alfonso Ribeiro...

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Compiling The Absurd Box Score For Space Jam

March 22, 2011
by harvardsports
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This is Part 2 of our movie series. Part 1: Hoosiers By Andrew Mooney By now, we’re all familiar with the story: In 1994, an alien spacecraft lands in a minor league ballpark in rural Alabama, delivering Birmingham Barons...

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An Advanced Statistical Analysis of Jimmy Chitwood’s Basketball Performance in Hoosiers

March 17, 2011
by harvardsports
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By David Roher [vimeo 21101866 w=400 h=225] If I asked you who the best athlete in history was, none of you would hesitate before saying “John Daly.” But the best fictional athlete? That’s a bit tougher. Rocky...

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

December 21, 2010
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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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