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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Is there evidence that losing the Super Bowl can be devastating for a franchise?
By Jonathan Adler Earlier this season, I examined whether the NFL wedge blocking ban had meaningfully affected kickoff returns through the first eight games. (View November’s post) Back then, at the season’s midway point...