With the Major League Baseball season creeping towards its finale on Sunday, October 2, there are a total of 684 remaining games over the next seven weeks. Currently most teams have played 116 games, leading to approximately 46 remaining games. Fortunately, this means no teams are currently eliminated from the playoffs (while the Braves are…
With a daunting election looming this November, a common question has been whether to cast a vote for either Trump (R), Clinton (D), Johnson (L), Stein (G), or another viable candidate. In this edition, we take a look at the weight of your vote. Vote Apportioning Votes are apportioned by a mixture of the population…
Edit Note: Sorry for the long delay in posts; work and personal life got better of the previous two months. But let’s do an in-depth NBA MVP analysis to make up for it. With the NBA season wrapping up with a surprising Cleveland Cavaliers seven game victory over the Golden State Warriors, questions resurfaced about…
Now that 52 games of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, we come to the Sweet 16. Despite all the crazy upsets and close calls, we are left with 15 power conference teams and one perennial power-house of a “mid-major” team in Gonzaga. Using the resulting 52 games, we are able to update the…
A simple method of visualizing NBA offenses and defenses is through the use of summary statistics. This gives us a look at the average offensive and defensive game for any given NBA team. For sports such as MLB, NFL, and NBA, this gives us a representative glimpse at a team’s ability to play. In other…
At the close of the Pelicans – Warriors game tonight, we witnessed the Warriors set the record for fastest team to 60 wins with a 125 – 107 rout in Oakland. With the Warriors moving to 60-6 for the season with 16 games to go, the 72-10 record seems very well within their grasp. However,…
Now that the field of 68 has been set, the next question is who will be lucky enough to win the NCAA Tournament? This has been the year of parity as we have seen a bevy of teams fall from the #1 ranking throughout the season. Also, this season features the most number of losses…
Now that the conference tournaments have wrapped up, we are left to identify who is in and who is out. Many analysts use RPI, gut feelings, and perceived “key wins” to help them identify a top 36 team “At-Large” seeding. Others such as Lunardi, Massey, and Colley, incorporate metrics observed based on wins, points, locations,…
Only five games remain for the conference tournaments. As we are under 24 hours from the selection committee’s announcements, we have a couple remaining games to resolve. Recently, Buffalo knocked off Akron to capture the Mid-American conference championship; Cal. State Bakersfield wrestled away the Western Athletic conference from New Mexico State; and San Diego State…
As all the power conferences play their bulk of the games, we start to see the final shuffle of teams take place; each jockeying for one of the precious 68 spots in the NCAA tournament. Over the past day, no new major upsets took place other than University of Alabama Birmingham’s loss to Western Kentucky.…
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