Author: Enzo Profili (McCormick ’21) Over the last years, the Premier League has seen an unbelievable increase in spending on transfers and wages. Transfer expenditure in the summer window has risen almost sevenfold, from £215m to…
Author: Jeremy Brooks (Weinberg ’20) In every level of basketball, rebounding is considered in two different lights: on one hand it is the pinnacle of chaos for the sport; as rebounds can ricochet at wild,…
Author: Caitlin Somerville (Weinberg ’20) Scoring. At the end of any hockey game, the only thing that matters is which team put more pucks in the net. It’s the objective of the game; the reason why…
This article was originally published on February 20, 2018. Fantasy basketball’s increasing popularity is not being disregarded. Having taken notice, the National Basketball Association (NBA) officially adopted a universal scoring system for fantasy leagues in…
Author: Peter Lim (Weinberg ’21) In the past two years, the MLB has become a home run league. In 2017, major league hitters hit a total of 6105 home runs, a single season record. 5610…
This article was originally published on February 15, 2018. In this post, we investigate shooting guards and their performance during the 2016-17 season. For this analysis, we selected the 51 players who played at least…
This article was originally published on February 8, 2018. In this blog post we analyze different tiers of point guards, and some interesting statistics surrounding various players from the 2016-17 season. The insights generated from…
This article was originally published on February 5, 2018. We mapped the Pts/$K for the Phoenix Suns throughout the 2017 season and found some very interesting results. Scatter plot of all 82 games and the…
Author: Connor Loughlin (Medill ’20) We’ve hit late January, only a couple of weeks until pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training in Arizona and Florida, and the top three starting pitchers in this year’s…
We found that there was significant pricing inefficiency amongst teams, with a significant negative correlation between regular season wins and average Pts/$K. To perform this analysis, we used our filtered data to analyze the performance…