Revisiting 2013-14 NBA projections

At the beginning of the year, we looked at how different projection systems viewed the 2013-14 NBA season. To recap, … More

Common sense & statistics, using NFL and NBA arrest rates

In his bi-annual mailbag, ESPN’s Bill Simmons takes a sarcastic tone to the NFL, advocating that the NBA should exploit … More

Early in the season, we explored projections for the 2013-14 NBA season, looking specifically at how analytics folks viewed things. … More

During the NBA’s Christmas quintuple-header, the league required all of its players to wear sleeved jerseys. With the league expecting … More

The term parity is familiar to any sports fan. Defined by Google as “the state or condition of being equal,” … More

The 2013-2014 NBA season is here. Is your team ready to outperform its expectation? In this post, I aggregated several … More

After a Bruins loss to the Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup finals, I posted about how despite the recent string of … More

One spot where statistics and sports have commonly intersected is the so-called ‘hot-hand’ theory. Statisticians have argued that athletes – … More

Over the last few years, several friends and colleagues have asked me to send along papers on sports which have … More