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If you’re having a hard time getting into sports as they’ve restarted during the coronavirus pandemic, you’re not…
Jul 10 2019
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When the 2019 Champions League final between Liverpool and Tottenham kicked off, I wasn’t jammed into a sports bar…
Feb 14 2019
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“I joked that if we started our sites a year earlier we’d be Mark Cuban right now.” If you liked the New York Times story about the indispensable Sports Reference network of sites, here’s an even better one, from a year ago, with much more meat on its bones, from Noah Frank of WTOP. It’s worth your time.
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Jan 20 2019
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Dating back a few years, the NFL has put microchips in players’ pads to track their movements in games. Since the…
May 1 2018
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A consistently reliable rule of baseball is that the closer your runners are to home plate, the better chance you…
Sep 21 2017
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Sabermetrics godfather and occasional Joe Paterno apologist Bill James has spent the past many years as something of…
May 1 2017
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Join me on a short journey through some neat NBA stats from the 2016-17 regular season.
Aug 25 2016
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Are you seated? Are you prepared to hear the rawest, truest sabermetrics take of all time from Blue Jays scout Steve…
Apr 15 2016
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Rob Mitchum and Hunter Owens
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When Coachella opens its gates at the Empire Polo Club today, it sounds the bugle for Festival Season, now a…
Feb 20 2015
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Feb 12 2015
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Charles Barkley said some really dumb stuff about basketball analytics on Tuesday night, and so Keith Olbermann…
Nov 21 2014
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Over at FiveThirtyEight, Reuben Fischer-Baum has put together an interactive graph of every NFL team's cumulative point differential over its history. (The grabbed image above is not interactive. Stop trying to interact with it.)
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Nov 11 2014
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LeBron James thought he had himself a 32-10-12 triple-double in last night's win against the Pelicans, but he did…
Sep 30 2014
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From Skidmore College statistics professor Michael Lopez comes the handy chart you see above, plotting the 2014 win…
May 21 2014
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Tyler Dellow offers up a rare but well-deserved fisking of Steve Simmons's latest anti-stats garbage pile. Read it not just to laugh at Simmons, but for useful answers to dumb questions from the luddites in your life.
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Feb 6 2014
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This morning on Grantland, Kirk Goldsberry introduced the stat Expected Possession Value Added (EPVA), which he…
Jan 21 2014
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The box score from last night's Creighton-Villanova game—a game that ended with Creighton upsetting the No. 4 team…
Jan 9 2014
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Did you know that Curt Schilling led the league in complete games from 1992-2001? That Tim Raines led the league in…
Dec 16 2013
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There is something impossibly satisfying about watching a team come out of a timeout and run an ornately designed…
Oct 30 2013
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Over the last five games, David Ortiz has hit .733/.750/1.267. This would be a crazy line for any stretch of the…