Everyone loves filling out brackets. It’s a way to flex your knowledge and dunk on your friends. It gives you rooting interests in games you…
Nothing deserves more credit for the widespread popularity of the NBA than the Larry Bird vs Magic Johnson rivalry that dominated the 80s. Before this…
Jordan vs Lebron, Lebron vs Jordan. It’s the topic you bring up with the guy at the end of the bar on a Thursday when…
Continuing our discussion of records in professional sports, we now turn to studying the most unbreakable NFL record. Most lists of the most unbreakable NFL…
Quite often debated is which all-time record is actually the most unbreakable NBA record. Commonly cited candidates include Wilt’s 100 point game, Wilt’s 48.5 minutes…
Curve fitting is all about determining the relationship between two variables. More specifically, fitting a curve to data is about using one observed number to…
You can’t stay king (or queen) forever. The Great One will eventually just become a great one. The title of GOAT (greatest of all time)…
How could something called “the secretary problem” be at all useful in sports analytics? Pretend you’re Aaron Judge this offseason. You’re pretty sure that all…
By: Manthan Koolwal (Author Bio Below) Web Scraping data is required for performance analytics. You can find this data on websites like NBA, FIFA, NFL,…
When somebody asks me what a mathematician actually does all day, I often bring up strength of schedule in sports. Strength of schedule is one…
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