In the last year of writing for this blog, I’ve largely tackled ethereal, inconsequential questions including ‘Who are the best teams in the NBA/NCAAM?’, ‘Who…
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Because of the break in the action, I took the time to update my college basketball rankings in order to make my March Madness predictions…
Not a single sporting event causes more debate, excitement, talk of ‘strength of schedule’, and interest in analytics as March Madness. Every budding data scientist…
Boiling everything down, success in the NBA can be directly linked to offensive efficiency and defensive efficiency. We’ll directly study these concepts with a new…
Different NBA teams play at different paces. Many different NBA pace stats exist, but how can we predict the pace of an upcoming game? Do…
2020 NBA Power Rankings Designing ways to generate power rankings for a particular league is one of the most important problems in sports analytics. About…
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Every sports manager is tasked with making decisions. Typically, they rely on years of experience and expertise in order to make the best decisions possible.…
One of this year’s biggest free agents is Montrezl Harrell. Though he didn’t start, Montrezl was extremely effective in his limited minutes. Is a Montrezl…
October 31, 2012. That’s the day the Warriors dynasty started. On October 31, 2012, Steph Curry agreed to a 4 year, $44 million contract that…
It can be hard to forget that professional sports are a business. As much as we love to talk about owners showing loyalty to players…