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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Originally appeared in the Harvard Independent
I should love Bobby Abreu.
At least I should according to Ed Wade, the GM of the Houston Astros. Wade told the New York Times that the former all-star is “a sabermetrician’s dream, from the standpoint of what he produces statistically.” Fortunately, Wade is not my most trusted source for baseball […]

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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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Tampa Bay won their 18 game season series with Boston, 10 games to 8 (and took the AL East pennant by those 2 games, exactly).  Past wins decide titles, but in comparison to runs scored, how much should past won/lost records be counted when making predictions?   Bill James’ “Pythagorean” formula (also implemented in ESPN’s “Cool […]

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As a huge Red Sox fan, I’m a bit hesitant to post the second article on the Rays in a row, especially now that they’ll be facing each other the ALCS.  Hopefully it doesn’t jinx the Sox.  This is an article I wrote for the Harvard Independent, our fifth article published in their weekly newspaper.  […]

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Here’s a piece written by Andrew Thomas, one of our graduate student members, on the likelihood of different “streaky” accomplishments in baseball. It uses some probability and statistics to try to prove the difficulty of reaching certain milestones.
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Fans of Major League Baseball have seen three major achievements in recent
weeks, each in a different discipline […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Spring training is already underway in Florida and Arizona, and it’s even starting to thaw out a bit up here in New England.  This is the time of year when all 30 teams have high aspirations for the season, no matter whether they are coming off a World Series championship like the Red Sox or […]

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David Pinto (Class of 1982, Mather House), author of the popular site Baseball Musings was a guest speaker this past Thursday and spoke to members of HSAC about his entry into baseball journalism. We encourage anyone with an interest in baseball to check out his site.

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