We spent the last few days building a new type of model for the March Madness Tournament this year. Our results were submitted to the…
Last night, the sports world was shaken by the Luka Doncic trade, arguably the biggest trade in sports history. Yes, not just NBA history, but…
The 2024 Celtics won the NBA title convincingly. They lost only three games and were regarded (with the possible exception of Denver) as the best…
March Madness is as popular as it is because of the upsets. Nothing brings otherwise neutral fans together better than rooting for an Ivy league…
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…
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…
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…
In the article here, we introduced the sparse impacts model. This NBA model is our attempt at creating a simple yet effective way to predict…
The Sparse Impacts Model (SIM) is the second iteration of The Data Jocks’ NBA model. Some NBA models assign ratings to teams. An entirely different…