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Category - NFL Football

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A Call for Sanity: Start Ryan Mathews

October 9, 2012
by harvardsports
6 min read
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by Sam Waters Since this was written, the Chargers have played their Week 5 game. Jackie Battle started, but Mathews received more touches. Mathews still ceded goal line carries and late-game snaps to third stringer Ronnie...

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The Seahawks and the NFL’s Best Home Field Advantage

October 5, 2012
by harvardsports
4 min read
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by Andrew Mooney A road game in the NFL can be a daunting proposition. Facing a sufficiently amped home crowd, a team has to worry about things they normally wouldn’t at home: snap counts, hearing play calls, and hey, what...

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The Mixed History of Rookie Starting Quarterbacks

September 26, 2012
by harvardsports
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by Andrew Mooney At its most important position, the NFL is in the midst of an extreme youth movement. A record five rookie quarterbacks started games in Week One, to go along with another five starters in just their second year...

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This Is The Angriest America Has Been At Referees Since The 2006 Super Bowl

September 25, 2012
by harvardsports
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by David Roher What would motivate you to Google “referee?” Nothing good (unless you’re counting sexy bedroom role-play costumes, in which case, uh, nothing good). The above Google Trends graph (updated last...

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When Playing It Safe Backfires: Analyzing the Patriots’ Final Drive Decision-Making

September 18, 2012
by harvardsports
3 min read
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by Andrew Mooney Here’s a look inside the final sequence of Sunday’s wild 20-18 loss to the Cardinals. For my numbers, I’m making use of the Win Probability Calculator made available by advancednflstats.com. Specifically...

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How Many Years Does Tom Brady Have Left?

September 6, 2012
by harvardsports
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by Andrew Mooney For the last decade, the beginning of a new Patriots season has brought with it the realistic prospect of a Super Bowl in a few months’ time. Much of the reason for this—and one of the only things remaining...

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Why Any NFL GM Who Reads Bleacher Report Should Be Fired: A Response to “Why Any NFL GM Who Uses the Harvard NFL Pick Value Chart Should Be Fired”

May 29, 2012
by harvardsports
5 min read
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In April, a writer for the Bleacher Report (BR) attempted to critique a new pick value chart for the NFL draft that I created and that HSAC published. There are many legitimate criticisms of my work in that article that are worth...

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Equally Inaccurate: An Analysis of Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay’s Draft Rankings

May 25, 2012
by harvardsports
6 min read
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ESPN Dallas

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Don’t Trade Up in the NFL Draft

April 25, 2012
by harvardsports
3 min read
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As the draft looms tomorrow night, NFL teams are (hopefully) finalizing their draft boards and trying to make plans for every conceivable contingency. Whether or not they want to trade, and in which direction, is surely one of...

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Can a Computer Generate Belichick Postgame Speeches?

April 24, 2012
by harvardsports
6 min read
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by Harry Chiel & Owen Prunskis In their blog post ā€œBelichick and Brady Address the Media: A Statistical Report,ā€ Ben Blatt and Andrew Mooney accurately describe the mind-numbing, yet occult, phenomenon that is a Bill...

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