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Elo Ratings for The Challenge: Rivals III

May 4, 2016
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By Harrison Chase The opening episode ofĀ America’s fifth major sport, the Challenge, premieres on MTV tonight. As a sports analytics blog, it would be almost unethical for us not provide some statistical insight into what...

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An Unfair Pool at the 2013 FINA Swimming World Championships?

November 20, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Aly Abdel Khalik and David Wang During the 2013 FINA World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, there was much controversy as to whether the temporary Myrtha Pool was truly a ā€œfairā€ pool. As the competition proceeded...

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Stone Cold Stats: WWE Elo Ratings

August 17, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Harrison Chase and Henry Johnson With SummerSlam 2015 around the corner, it’s worth stating the obvious:Ā  WWE is complicated. Professional wrestling is stuffed with backstories, rivalries, and plot twists so numerous that...

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US Open 2014: How It Compares to Other Grand Slams in “Craziness”

September 3, 2014
by harvardsports
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Caroline Wozniacki’s victory over Maria Sharapova Sunday at the 2014 U.S. Open capped off the madness of the women’s singles bracket at the U.S. Open. Only two of the top eight seeds—Serena Williams and Eugenie...

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We Went There: The 1997 NBA Finals, Live From Pyongyang

March 11, 2013
by harvardsports
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By Cameron Dowd, Andrew Mooney, and Kevin Meers This post can also be seen atĀ grantland.comĀ here. North Korean basketball enthusiasts have long remained anonymous, as their sport flew as far under the radar as most other...

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It’d Take Trey Parker A Million Years To Lose, And Other Statistical Oddities Of BASEketball

March 23, 2011
by harvardsports
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BASEketball was released in 1998, and while the film did manage to catch director David Zucker before his career free fall had taken him from the heights of Naked Gun to the depths of Scary Movie 4, it was in all other aspects a...

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Reverse-Engineering Our New Computer Overlords: Watson, Jeopardy, and Sports Decision Making

February 17, 2011
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Watson closed the pod bay door on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter last night, bringing the IBM robot’s 2-game Jeopardy total to over $77,000.Ā  Humans are still the kings of awful robot-pop-culture references...

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2010: The Year in Injuries

January 26, 2011
by harvardsports
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By David Roher (Also appears on Deadspin.) Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...

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Unnecessary Inference and Undisputed Authorship: Bill Simmons, Jason Whitlock, and Rick Reilly

November 10, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Ben Blatt In 1964, Mosteller and Wallace published Inference and Disputed Authorship: The Federalist. The paper used statistical analysis to try to determine if James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, or John Jay was the author of...

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What Predicts ATP Tennis Rankings? Hint: It’s Not Break Points

September 22, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Andrew Cohen With the conclusion of the last tennis major of the year, the US Open, and the return of football on Sundays, the sport has been returned to its status as an afterthought for American sports fans. Interestingly...

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