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NSAG DFS Blog 6: Small Forward Selection

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…

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NSAG DFS Blog 5: Should you pay for DFS Advice?

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…


NSAG DFS Blog 4: Shooting Guard Selection

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…


NSAG DFS Blog 3: Point Guard Selection Feb 8

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…




Blog 0: NSAG – Sportlytix NBA DFS Blog Series

This article was originally published on February 1, 2018. Over the last few months, NSAG, in conjunction with Sportlytix, analyzed the DFS data for all 3,362 games during the 2016-17 NBA season. We believe our…


Is It Worth It to Host the Olympics?

Author: Dan Alessandro (Weinberg ’19) This project was originally published in the spring of 2017. Financing an Olympic Games is a daunting undertaking for any city, almost invariably leading to millions or billions of dollars…