Author: Ella Brockway (Medill ’21) In December 2016, current Chelsea manager Antonio Conte said it would be “impossible” for any Premier League team to hit or break the 100-point barrier because of the league’s competitiveness…
Authors: Joel Kirshner (McCormick ’19), Caitlin Somerville (Weinberg ’20) and Blake Krantz (Weinberg ’21) After sending the reigning President’s-trophy-winning Predators packing in Smashville, the Jets will welcome the Golden Knights to town with a trip…
The first round of action in the NHL playoffs included all the excitement and bitterness that fans expect come April. Fans were treated to brilliant performances by goaltenders Marc-Andre Fleury, Jonathan Quick, Martin Jones and…
This article was originally published on March 12, 2018. We began our analysis by grouping small forwards into salary categories (rounding down to the nearest thousand), and graphing percentage of “good” performances (games in which…
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: 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…
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…