Harvard Sports Analysis Collective

Each year, the NFL decision makers gather in Indianapolis to watch players cavort about in spandex.  Even though all the players participating have appeared in dozens of college games and hundreds of plays, scouts (and fans) insist on hard “data” to determine their value.  The most widely reported test during the combine is the 40 […]

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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 […]

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This is sort of self-serving, but I wanted to direct people to an article I wrote with my friend David Lewin for Football Outsiders. It is a discussion of some of the biggest off-season issues in the NFC East. We work in a little bit of the typical Outsiders analysis. At this […]

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