NCAA hoops & circadian rhythms

One of my favorite NFL studies (Smith et al, 1996, with several follow-ups) looks at the results of night contests in … More

March Madness bracket advice, adjusted for 2015

It’s that time of year again, and while you can go to just about any media outlet for March Madness … More

Over on the Kaggle discussion board, Jeff made a few really interesting posts. In one, he compared how the approximately … More

Last week, several media outlets, and many well respected mathematicians, gave their best shot at estimating the odds of replicating … More

Picking winners for March Madness isn’t always about picking the team you think will win. Further, it’s not necessarily about … More

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

The NCAA March Madness tournament provides the opportunity for several testable hypothesis with regards to the best team rankings systems … More

With a few NCAA Division 1 title contenders suffering embarrassing defeats today (Syracuse, Kansas), I decided to go back and look at … More

Ceclilia Noecker & Paul Roback penned an interesting piece on the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, which I summarize … More