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…
There are two existing strategies for how to pick a fantasy football defense. Some people like drafting the best projected defense late in the draft…
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The credit assignment problem in sports analytics asks the fundamental question of how to divide the credit from a particular event to each of the…
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When analyzing pick values in creating my recent NFL draft value chart, I was led to ask some questions related to accuracy in the NFL…
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While watching the first round of the 2022 NFL draft, all I could think about was different ways to construct an NFL draft value chart…
Who are the best kickers in the NFL currently and the best in NFL history? This is kind of a fun one because determining the…
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From an outside perspective, this year’s NFL playoffs seem fairly wide open. Before the start of the playoffs, we wanted to fire up The Data…
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Do the Bearcats have reasonable college football championship odds or are they more likely to go down as a footnote in history? From Andy Dalton’s…
This year I count myself thankful for many things, the Bears-Lions game on Thanksgiving day is simply not one of them. To prepare everyone for…
Passer rating and QBR are metrics which attempt to tell us how well a quarterback played in a particular game or over the course of…