General: Winning First Titles Back to Back
Winning First Titles Back to Back: Andrew McKillop of SportsDelve.com has a neat list of teams (college or pro) who won their first 2 championships ever in consecutive seasons.
View ArticleFootball: Initial Poll Results
Initial Poll Results: At Analytic Football, Ben Alamar charted some of the early returns on his poll about the future of sports analytics.
View ArticleNon-Sports: Which Actors Tarnished Their Oscars the Most in 2011?
Which Actors Tarnished Their Oscars the Most in 2011?: A little Hollywood Sabermetrics from Grantland’s Lane Brown, who calculated the degree to which various actors lowered their average post-Oscar...
View ArticleGolf: Can Top-10 Finishes in Golf Majors Give Us an Idea on Whether or Not...
Can Top-10 Finishes in Golf Majors Give Us an Idea on Whether or Not Tiger Can Catch Jack?: Jason Lisk of The Big Lead attempts to project how many Major wins Tiger has left based on players with...
View ArticleGeneral: Usain Bolt and the limits of human speed
Usain Bolt and the limits of human speed: Grantland’s Chuck Klosterman asked scientists and track experts how low they thought the 100-meter world record could possibly go.
View ArticleNon-Sports: Historical Billboard Charts Spreadsheet
Historical Billboard Charts Spreadsheet: If you’re a sports spreadsheet nerd like me, this will turn you into a music spreadsheet nerd as well. It’s a file (updated earlier this year) containing data...
View ArticleGolf: Is Rory McIlroy the next Tiger Woods?
Is Rory McIlroy the next Tiger Woods?: At Slate, Michael Agger looks at what the advanced golf stats say about the young star.
View ArticleGeneral: The Sports Book Hall of Fame
The Sports Book Hall of Fame: Grantland’s staff makes its first choices for the Sports Book HoF.
View ArticleGeneral: New Issue of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports
New Issue of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports: Be sure to check out JQAS’ 3rd issue of 2011, which came out yesterday.
View ArticleGeneral: Poisson Processes in Sports
Poisson Processes in Sports: 3-D Baseball looks at the various distributions you can use to model scoring events in different sports, highlighting the Poisson distribution’s effective applications in...
View ArticleGeneral: Winning and Losing Seasons
Winning and Losing Seasons: SportsDelve’s Andrew McKillop tallied up the number of winning and losing seasons for each franchise in the NBA, NFL, and MLB.
View ArticleGeneral: Plenty of Good Seats Still Available
Plenty of Good Seats Still Available: At Slate, Neil deMause writes about the collapse of the sports ticket bubble, and its implications for fans.
View ArticleGeneral: Are We Actually Getting Better at Chess?
Are We Actually Getting Better at Chess?: Sometimes you will hear complaints that top chess players’ Elo Ratings have been artificially inflated over time, but a new study suggests that the quality of...
View ArticleGeneral: The Theory That Would Not Die
The Theory That Would Not Die: Bayes’ Theorem in the NY Times! John Allen Paulos’ review of Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s The Theory That Would Not Die.
View ArticleGeneral: The Latest From SportsDelve.com
The Latest From SportsDelve.com: A couple of posts from Sportsdelve’s Andrew McKillop this weekend: first, he compiled complete records for FBS teams vs. Division II/III/NAIA schools; then, he tallied...
View ArticleGeneral: Can Novak Djokovic Craft the Best Men’s Tennis Season Ever?
Can Novak Djokovic Craft the Best Men’s Tennis Season Ever?: At the WSJ, Carl Bialik looks at the probability that Djokovic (53-1) can beat John McEnroe’s record 82-3 mark from 1984.
View ArticleGeneral: Success Comes From Better Data, Not Better Analysis
Success Comes From Better Data, Not Better Analysis: At the Harvard Business Review, Rockets GM Daryl Morey writes about how better data — not smarter analytics — is the way to gain an edge in...
View ArticleGeneral: NESSIS Registration
NESSIS Registration: Baseball Musings’ David Pinto points out that NESSIS (the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports) has opened registration for the 2011 conference.
View ArticleGeneral: Daryl Morey is Right. Daryl Morey is also Wrong
Daryl Morey is Right. Daryl Morey is also Wrong: Bill Petti and Tom Tango offer a couple of reactions to Daryl Morey’s HBR post about the debate between better data and better analytics.
View ArticleGeneral: Picasso Theory
Picasso Theory: A couple of reactions, from Tangotiger and Phil Birnbaum, to Malcolm Gladwell’s piece about the “psychic benefits” of owning a sports team.
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