By Theo Gerome and Henry Johnson Stan Ross, the egotistical title character of Mr. 3000, claims that he “deserves to be in the Hall of Fame with the immortals.” The baseball writers disagree. Hitting total aside, he is denied...
Category - NCAA Basketball
By Ben Blatt ’13 Over four years ago I walked into my first meeting of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective. In most social settings I may be overly nerdy, overly analytical and overly obsessed with sports. At HSAC, I was...
By Jake Lynch After winning its conference tournament this last weekend, the Wichita State Shockers became the first Division I men’s basketball team to enter March Madness undefeated since the 1991 UNLV Runnin’ Rebels...
By Julian Ryan On draft night June 28th 2013, Sixers GM traded away All-Star Jrue Holiday for the sixth overall pick (which became Nerlens Noel, who is yet to play a minute in the NBA due to a pre-existing torn ACL) and a top-5...
By Theo Gerome Last year I took a look at the active players who were, in one sense, on track to join the Hall of Fame. I wanted to update it with the players from last year, but after looking at it in retrospect, there were a...
By Judson Woods and Henry Johnson The salary structure of the MLS seems to offer a perfect recipe for inequality. Team caps are low, but exceptions can be made for “designated players” whose salaries aren’t fully counted...
Now up on Advanced NFL Stats: Sam Waters examines the manner in which the NFL playoff picture moves from cloudy to clear. The NFL season might only be nine weeks old, but the league’s playoff picture is already starting to gain...
By Julian Ryan The 2013 NBA Finals was one of the most exciting series in recent memory and came within one shot of going either way. It saw the San Antonio Spurs, boasting just two lottery picks in Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard...
By Ty Aderhold Last year, HSAC looked at the readability of various sports writers using the Flesch-Kincaid formula, which outputs a value that represents the grade level of the writing. While the formula is only a very rough...
Now up on Advanced NFL Stats: Kurt Bullard takes a look at a couple late-game calls made by the Patriots and what it means when Win Probability and Expected Points suggest different decisions. This Sunday, the Patriots found...