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…
If you’re anything like me, the NBA Christmas day lineup is perhaps the best part of the day next to spending time with your loved…
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In honor of the recently completed 2021 World Chess Championship, I wanted to take the opportunity to analyze Chess Elo ratings in order to see…
Much like Total QBR for quarterbacks, player efficiency rating is an attempt to put a single number on the quality of a basketball player. If…
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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…
BABIP – batting average on balls in play – is very different from many of the sports stats you’re used to seeing. Instead of trying…
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50 years ago, baseball got mathematical when Bill James started the Society for American Baseball Research and the sabermetrics revolution began. 15 years ago, Tom…
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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…
In the NBA, usage rate is a statistic meant to estimate how often a player contributes to the outcome of a play. In a sport…