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Category - NFL Football

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Were the Saints Right to Avoid Kicking To Leon Washington?

January 9, 2011
by harvardsports
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By Kevin Meers Despite all the uncertainty surrounding the NFL – who will win the 2011 Super Bowl, whether a new collective bargaining agreement will be reached – one belief stood as near fact: the defending champion...

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The Art of an NFL Comeback

December 13, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Will McMillan Mismanagement of the clock as the game or the half winds down seems to be a part of NFL culture; we all know that the way in which a team’s final possession is handled, right down to the second, can have a...

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When Giving Up a Free Touchdown Pays Off: Packers vs. Bears

September 29, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Ari Rubin and Daniel Granoff With 1:40 left in last night’s Monday Night Football game, Bears fans prayed that their team wouldn’t turn the ball over or continue its impressive skill of messing up on the goal line. Chicago...

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4th and 1 Football Camp

July 27, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Daniel Adler This summer, I spent a week in mid-July in East Texas teaching SAT math at a football/life skills/SAT camp founded by Detroit Lions Assistant Secondary Coach (and Harvard Law+Kennedy school alum), Daron Roberts...

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Where Every Team Is Above Average: Home-Field Advantage and its Effects on Revenue

March 7, 2010
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Had an incredible time at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference yesterday. I got to tell so many people how long I’d been reading their books and blogs, or how important they were to my becoming interested in...

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Getting Down to Business: Part 2

March 5, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Jake Fisher In the first installment of this series, I looked at team values provided by Forbes. According to regression analysis, team value is a function of team revenue. I also looked at the correlation between a team’s...

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The Drawbacks of the NFL OT Proposal

February 28, 2010
by harvardsports
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By David Roher According to an AP story written last night, the NFL is considering a change to its overtime system, although only for playoff games. A change from the sudden-death format is overdue. Brian Burke has found that in...

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Getting Down to Business: Part 1

February 28, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Jake Fisher As the title suggests, this multi-part series of posts will take a step off the field and into the front office. The goal of the series is to examine some of the intricacies of the sports industry. Where do teams...

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  • Papers

HSAC To Appear in Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports

February 23, 2010
by harvardsports
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A paper written by HSAC has been accepted into the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports! This will be the second paper HSAC has published in JQAS. HSAC’s first appearance in the journal came in 2007, when the club looked...

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Colts WR Anthony Gonzalez visits HSAC

February 18, 2010
by harvardsports
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Last night, Indianapolis Colts WR Anthony Gonzalez joined HSAC at its weekly meeting. Gonzalez is spending the week at Harvard Business School for a business education program for NFL players. Speaking to a packed room, Anthony...

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