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Category - MLB Baseball
How unlikely is the Minnesota Twins' playoff losing streak? The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective uses win probabilities to show that the odds are only .002% - or about 1 in 54,000.
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Using advanced Statcast metrics, HSAC has assembled an All-Star team of Major League Baseball's top five-tool players. The team is led by Dodgers' stars Cody Bellinger and Mookie Betts, but also features more unheralded players...
by Diego Martinez Editor’s Note: HSAC is excited to partner with Sportico, a new publication from Penske Media Corporation. You can read a summary of this article, as well as outstanding coverage of sports business and...
By Andrew Puopolo With the Boston Bruins set to take on the St. Louis Blues for the Stanley Cup Finals tonight, Boston is on the verge of being the first city since Detroit in 1935 to hold at least three of the four major...
HSAC calculates the odds of Chris Davis' 54-at bat hitless streak based on Statcast's expected batting average. Even with Davis' struggles, the odds of him never recording a hit were less than 1 in a million.
By: Tate Huffman We are just past the midway point of the 2018 MLB season, and with every team having played over half of their 162-game schedules, the standings are a mix of preseason favorites and surprise squads. The common...
By Chase Aldridge & PJ Robinson As pitchers and catchers report today in preparation for the 2018 Major League Baseball season, we look forward to the future of baseball â the prospects. Many publications have predicted a...
By Andrew Puopolo Last week, I wrote a piece about parity in the NFL. Many of the comments on that article claimed that since 5 out of the 6 NFC playoff teams differed from a year ago, there was plenty of parity in the NFL...