By Harrison Chase (Originally posted at Nylon Calculus) Before the playoffs began, LeBron James was quoted multiple times about his concern over the Cavs’ lack of postseason experience. Thought it hasn’t ended up...
Category - NCAA Basketball
By Bill Lotter If time, money, and brain damage weren’t an issue, how would you decide if Nick Foles or Sam Bradford is better? You’d take a generic team, plug in Nick Foles, and play a million games. You’d do the same...
By Harrison Chase, Nathaniel Ver Steeg, and Daniel Smith One of the most important jobs of any NBA team is player development. For as much money is spent on scouts and coaches to find and develop the potential of players...
By Barrett Hansen The NBA’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) award has had its fair share of controversy in its half-century history. As in baseball, football and hockey, the MVP is currently determined by a panel of sportswriters...
by Bill Lotter I know you’ve probably seen 17 mock drafts, so I’m gonna keep this short and sweet. Back in February, I built models to predict where a player will be drafted and how well they will do in the NFL using...
By Harrison Chase Coming off a fifty win season last year, the Golden State Warriors fired coach Mark Jackson and brought in unproven Steve Kerr. The results have nothing short of amazing. They have been the best team in the...
by Henry Johnson The NCAA Tournament’s round of 16 teams is deemed sweet for good reason: it’s when the matchups heat up. Gone are the pretenders, the double digit seeds biting at the ankles of favorites, the one-round...
by Harrison Chase Kentucky is by far the best team in the nation, and the clear favorite to win the NCAA tournament, no matter what metric you look at. Still, even being the biggest favorite in history, KenPom, one of the premier...
by Will Ezekowitz It is important to remember that statistically predicting the NCAA tournament, despite what FiveThirtyEight and others may tell you, is largely a fool’s errand. Most of these games are close to coin tosses...
by Kurt Bullard After finishing the 2014 season 35-1 and running the table in the conference, Wichita State earned a one-seed to the dismay of mid-major haters around the country. The Shockers drew the No. 8 Kentucky in...