Harvard Sports Analysis Collective

HSAC was mentioned in an article about a Harvard grad who founded a fantasy baseball company.  I hope you find it interesting.  http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=526940

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I just came across a nice little article, Analytics in Football, https://www.technologyreview.com/computing/20132/page1/  It is from February last year but I still encourage you to check it out.  There is also a link to a football analytics book, which looks interesting and which I plan to check out.  http://thefootballscientist.com/scientific_football/Details/Scientific_Football_2007
The article also says the following, something that […]

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 It would be absolutely absurd to start the Super Bowl with anything that resembled a surprise.  Why do it?  What could one gain?  The Super Bowl is simply a normal football game, and the teams who have already made it this far know how to win football games; they must have won a bunch in […]

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Published by 2K Sports, and with A’s General Manager Billy Beane as the posterboy, MLB Front Office Manager is a Major League Baseball-licensed sports management game that has just been released.  It is available on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStations 3.
There are some excellent and informative reviews and summaries already available, which I provide […]

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My below response is regarding an HSAC discussion about ‘proportional point-spread hypothesis’ that we’ve been having over the past several days.  It started as follows: Professor Morris, inspired by the early lead Arizona took over the Eagles, posed a question regarding point spreads, specifically, how the points should be thought of as being distributed over […]

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Hosted by the Harvard Office of Career Services (OCS) and the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective (HSAC), the NFL came to campus to hold a recruiting and information session for Harvard students. 

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I just came across an article that was written on RBIMagazine.com about a month ago, predicting that the Rays wouldn’t win the division because they have been lucky this season, while the Red Sox have been unlucky.  The writer uses the Bill James Pythagorean Win/Loss formula, a formula widely known in the baseball statistics community and even beyond at this point, to […]

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Mike Zarren, JD ‘04, Assistant Executive Director of Basketball Operations/Associate Counsel of the NBA Champion Boston Celtics, spoke to a group of HSAC members this past Wednesday night in Winthrop House.
Mike spoke about his role with the team, the use of statistical analysis in professional basketball, and also provided advice and background regarding the process […]

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Growing up, I always had a special affinity for point guards.  They were the “floor generals,” or the quarterbacks of the basketball team, and were thus in the driver’s seat for every offensive possession.  I was somewhat indifferent to the other positions, as I knew for a fact that the point guard was the most […]

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Are the Patriots the best team ever? Does it even matter? Does anyone care? Will what they do this Sunday change your opinion? Does this make sense? They’re 18-0 now, so losing this game would make them 18-1. Do they still belong in the discussion of best team ever? […]

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