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Week 16 Numbers Game: History, trends and records on the line SundayDenver has 12 consecutive home wins and the NFL's longest active win streak as the Broncos attempt to keep their stride toward the AFC's No. 1 seed in the playoffs. ,Ahead of Sunday's game against the Jaguars, Denver's winning streak stands at 11 and Jacksonville has won five in a row to jump to the...

MLB adds Negro Leagues stats: Josh Gibson now all-time BA leaderHall of Fame catcher Josh Gibson officially became Major League Baseball's career leader with a .372 batting average after Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were included into MLB history.,Gibson, who spent nine of his 14 Negro Leagues seasons with the Homestead Grays, passed Ty Cobb...

Even Athletes Know the Quality of Socially-Distant Sports Sucks Right NowIf you’re having a hard time getting into sports as they’ve restarted during the coronavirus pandemic, you’re not alone. The athletes playing are struggling with this, too....

Waiting For The Revolution At Soccer Analytics Bootcamp

When the 2019 Champions League final between Liverpool and Tottenham kicked off, I wasn’t jammed into a sports bar downing beers with hundreds of other soccer-mad Americans, as I had originally planned to be. Instead, I was dead sober, watching the game in a lecture hall situated on the Columbia Uni...

“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 ...

What's Up With These NFL Next Gen Stats?

Dating back a few years, the NFL has put microchips in players’ pads to track their movements in games. Since the beginning of the 2017 season, the company that sends you shit in the mail and provides the architecture for a lot of the internet has slapped its name on the statistics generated by thos...

This Quirk Of Baseball Strategy Is Infuriating

A consistently reliable rule of baseball is that the closer your runners are to home plate, the better chance you have of scoring in a given inning. But what if this isn’t always true? Bear with me on this one....

Bill James's Twitter Polls Are Melting My Brain

Sabermetrics godfather and occasional Joe Paterno apologist Bill James has spent the past many years as something of a paradox. You can be confident that he’s smart at something, but a great deal of what he says and does flies in the face of that knowledge....

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Look At All These Crazy Stats From This NBA Season

Join me on a short journey through some neat NBA stats from the 2016-17 regular season....

by Chris Thompson|nba

|Mon May 01 2017

Blue Jays Assistant Offers The Hottest Advanced Stats Take Of All

Are you seated? Are you prepared to hear the rawest, truest sabermetrics take of all time from Blue Jays scout Steve Springer?...

by Patrick Redford|toronto blue jays

|Fri Aug 26 2016

Are Music Festivals Really All The Same Now?

When Coachella opens its gates at the Empire Polo Club today, it sounds the bugle for Festival Season, now a live-music summer staple from coast to coast. At the time of the first Coachella in 1999, its multi-day, multi-stage format was a novelty to anyone who hadn’t trekked out to a Woodstock anniv...

by Rob Mitchum|POP MUSIC

|Fri Apr 15 2016

NHL.com's new stats page is live, complete with "enhanced stats."...

by Barry Petchesky|nhl

|Fri Feb 20 2015

Keith Olbermann Uppercuts Charles Barkley Into An Erupting Volcano

Charles Barkley said some really dumb stuff about basketball analytics on Tuesday night, and so Keith Olbermann dedicated a segment of his show to calling Chuck an idiot many, many times....

by Tom Ley|charles barkley

|Thu Feb 12 2015

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.)...

by Barry Petchesky|nfl

|Fri Nov 21 2014

LeBron Loses Triple-Double After Being Mistaken For Tristan Thompson

LeBron James thought he had himself a 32-10-12 triple-double in last night's win against the Pelicans, but he did not! As it turns out, he was credited with an assist that he didn't deserve because the official scorer fucked up....

by Tom Ley|lebron james

|Tue Nov 11 2014

Chart: How Sabermetric MLB Forecasts Stacked Up Against Vegas

From Skidmore College statistics professor Michael Lopez comes the handy chart you see above, plotting the 2014 win totals of all 30 MLB teams against preseason predictions from Vegas and what Lopez calls his "Statsheads Prediction."...

by Ross Benes|mlb

|Wed Sep 28 2016

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....

by Barry Petchesky|nhl

|Wed May 21 2014

This New NBA Stat Is A Huge Step Forward For Basketball Analysis

This morning on Grantland, Kirk Goldsberry introduced the stat Expected Possession Value Added (EPVA), which he developed with some colleagues as part of a Sloan Conference paper. EPVA still needs some work, but it may represent an enormous development in NBA analysis. Here's why....

by Reuben Fischer-Baum|stats

|Wed Sep 28 2016

How Creighton Created The Craziest, Deadliest Offense In The Country

The box score from last night's Creighton-Villanova game—a game that ended with Creighton upsetting the No. 4 team in the country behind 21 made three-pointers—looks like a fluke. No team is supposed to heave 35 three-pointers in 40 minutes, let alone connect on 60 percent of them, right? Wrong. The...

by Tom Ley|creighton bluejays

|Wed Sep 28 2016

Cherrypick Your Way Through 143 Years Of Baseball Stats

Did you know that Curt Schilling led the league in complete games from 1992-2001? That Tim Raines led the league in hits from 1981-87? That Fred McGriff led the league in home runs from 1987-95? All great stats to argue for your favorite player's HOF admission, made possible by the magic of cherrypi...

by Reuben Fischer-Baum|mlb

|Wed Sep 28 2016

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