Here’s an article written by a couple of our members, Haibo Lu ‘08 and Alex Ahmed ‘10, for our biweekly column in the Harvard weekly paper, The Harvard Independent (www.harvardindependent.com). The type of prediction probability scoring that is discussed in the article is not limited to the NCAA basketball tournament - it has a lot of interesting applications. Look for more on […]
Entries from April 2008
Madness? This is March
April 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Basketball · NCAA
HSAC Publication in Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports
April 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Our sports group has just made its first mark in the academic world! Follow the link to the spring issue of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports to read our first published paper, “Improving Park Factors in Major League Baseball“. In it, we devise an alternate method of calculating park factors for MLB ballparks […]
Tags: Baseball · JQAS · Papers · Uncategorized
MLB’s Financial State
April 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Over at The Biz of Baseball, Maury Brown provides some excellent analysis of the Forbes Valuations of MLB teams over the past 6 years:
Overall, the most obvious news is owners are making money, and lots of it. Using the overblown cliché, they are hitting the ball out of the park. There may be disparity […]
Tags: Baseball
A.J. Smith’s High Grade in the 2005 Draft
April 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Each year, immediately after the draft, a variety of media sources publish their draft grades. Basically, these grades tell the readers if the team did a good job at picking the players that were conventionally popular (because if a team picked a player that they liked, but nobody else did, that would be immediately […]