Over the course of the previous 15 days, there have been some serious upsets within the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball landscape. On January 12th, #11 West Virginia ran #1 Kansas out of the arena with a 74-63 win. On the same day, #3 Maryland dropped a close 70-67 game to Michigan. One day later,…
As of the morning of December 31st, 2016, there have been a total of 2,394 games played by the 351 NCAA division I teams. This means that we are approximately 45% of the 2015-16 season completed. On December 29th, conference play started to take off across the 36 conferences as the American, ACC, Big East, Big…
Over our two week hiatus from Squared2020.com, there were 52 NBA games played, bringing us to a third of the season completed. During this time, we finally saw the Golden State Warriors drop their first game of the season, managing to go 24 consecutive games before their first loss in Milwaukee on December 12th. We…
As the final week of the regular season played out in the NCAA Division I FBS, we witnessed Michigan State power to a 16-13 win over Iowa to win the Big Ten as Clemson managed to weather a comeback attempt from North Carolina for a 45-37 win en route to winning the ACC. In our…
With the penultimate week of the college football season just completed, we witnessed Stanford solidify their ranking with a 38-36 victory over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in Palo Alto and Ohio State deliver a drubbing on Michigan to the tune of 42-13. Not to be outdone, Oklahoma demolished intrastate rival Oklahoma State 58-23. Most importantly,…
This past week, 50 NBA games were played as five teams posted perfect records: Oklahoma City (4-0), Golden State (4-0), San Antonio (4-0), Toronto (3-0), and Indiana (2-0). The wins accelerated Toronto to atop the Atlantic Division, while Golden State, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City extended their leads in their respective Western Conference divisions. On…
With 14 days remaining before selection day for the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Series, we decided to apply the Bradley-Terry model for identifying a ranking of the 128 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Series teams. All we considered for this model is whether a team won a particular match-up, and whether the location of the game…
This past week 44 NBA games were played as we continued to watch the Golden State Warriors push to a 14 – 0 start; matching the best start to a season for a defending NBA Champion since the Boston Celtics from the 1960’s. Similarly the Philadelphia 76ers continued to have a rough start to the…
Eleven games into the season, the Lakers’ and their 77 years of NBA experience (average experience 5.13 years) are a meager 2-9. Of the fifteen players on roster, Kobe Bryant and Metta World Peace combine for 34 years (19 and 15, respectively) of NBA experience. This means, of the remaining 13 players on roster, the…
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