In our fifth to last installment of making the playoffs, we begin to shift gears and take serious looks at the races for the MLB playoffs over the final month of the season. As of the morning of August 28th, each team has approximately 33 games remaining. Technically, the Twins, Braves, Brewers, and Reds have been effectively…
In this edition, we will merely post the current standings on the morning of August 28th and give the probabilities of making the playoffs. This weekend, we will start measuring teams’ chances of making the playoffs and progressively dissect elimination probabilities. For this week, we start by taking a look at the Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves,…
Another week closer to playoffs baseball and we witnessed a few surges in the standings; both good and bad. After picking up a series win on the road in San Francisco, the Baltimore Orioles came back home to find themselves in a rocky 1-4 run against the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros; all teams…
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…
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…
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…
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…
With Selection Sunday only four (FOUR!) days away, we have witnessed some amazing upsets in several conferences. Dominant Valparaiso was stunned by University of Wisconsin – Green Bay in the Horizon League as the Phoenix marched their way into the NCAA playoffs for the first time in 20 years. Monmouth was upended in the Metro…
As the regular season comes to a close today with Big Ten action, we start to turn our focus to the conference tournaments. In this edition, we take a look at all 32 conferences and identify the current state of the NCAA tournaments, as defined by our ranking algorithms. Conferences are broken down as follows:…
Creeping into March, the Atlantic Sun and Patriot League Conference Tournaments have kicked off. Meanwhile another set of 62 NCAA Division I Mean’s basketball games have taken place since Sunday. We witnessed #5 Xavier come fresh off a victory against top ranked #1 Villanova only to fall 81-90 to Seton Hall. #8 Iowa continued…