Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the largest city in Wisconsin with approximately 600,000 residents and has started to notice a sharp increase in violent crimes over the recent couple years. For 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted through the Uniform Crime Report that Milwaukee had reported 90 murders, 395 reports of rape, 3,520 robberies, and 4,859 reports of aggravated assaults.…
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…
Back in 2013, Wired put forth an article detailing an effort by Dustin Cable at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center about mapping a point distribution of races in the United States. The map is constructed from the 2010 United States Census and places a color coded dot for each of the geolocated (by address) 308,745,528 persons…
With the Golden State Warriors and Memphis Grizzlies are set to square off for the second time this season tonight, we take an extended look at the most recent 119 – 69 Warrior win over the Grizzlies on November 2nd. We do this by looking at two consecutive possessions that resulted in a Warriors basket and a…
As Week 7 of the NFL season comes to a close, we have tallied a total of 119 of the 256 regular season football games. This equates to just over 46% of the season completed. In these seven weeks, we have four undefeated teams remaining: New England, Cincinnati, Denver, and Carolina. In a previous post, we used…
So far this season, the NBA has played 38 total games of the season’s 1,230 possible games. For these 38 games, we observe a total of 76 game scores across all teams. The observed 76 scores yielded some high results: 139, 136, 134, 132, 122, and 120; as well as some low results: 85, 78,…
Recently, the Oklahoma City Thunder and the San Antonio Spurs played to a frenetic 112 – 106 OKC win on October 28th. It was one heck of a statement to open the year for the NBA as the Thunder returned to the court as a complete, healthy unit; the first time since February of last…
Squared Statistics: Understanding Basketball Analytics 