Just like in football, the common consensus in basketball is that the ‘Big 3’ – California, Texas, and Florida – have the highest quality athletics.…
Do conference champions do better or worse than at-large bids in March Madness? The tricky thing about this question is that you could use your…
This article is contributed by Adam Carter, Director of Player Personnel for the University of San Diego Football Team, Impact% is a stat that measures…
If you treat every game as a coin flip, the odds of a perfect bracket in the NCAA March Madness tournament are roughly in 1…
In a recent article we posted, we talked about how to build a baseball Elo model and the ins and out of how that worked.…
We’ve discussed previously how to use Vegas data to build models for NFL games. Can we build a baseball Elo model using the same ideas?…
In the NFL, fans often focus of time of possession as an important indicator of how the game is going. The common consensus is that…
It feels like no matter how hard anyone tries, nobody can beat Vegas ratings. No matter what model you look at or which year you…
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We constantly hear announcers or pundits talk about players resting because of back to back NBA games. If we’re resting players, it must be because…