Harvard Sports Analysis Collective

Rondo’s Triple 14.
Rajon Rondo’s triple double Wed night in Boston’s comeback win
over Dallas involved 19 points, 15 rebounds, and 14 assists.  His
“max-min” of 14 (14 maximizes the minimum category) means he
actually actually had a “triple 14″.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mike Greenwell has just been voted into to the Red Sox’ HOF. On Sep. 2, 1996 he had one of the most amazing offensive games ever, batting in all 9 runs in a Red Sox 9-8 win over Seattle. Five other players have had more RBI in a game (the record is […]

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I was quoted by Alan Schwarz in his NY Times Sports article
Jan 29, 2008 about a 1/29,000 chance of a 3-team trifecta in
one city.   Click here for the article.
Alan and I both have been asked about this number,
    E.g.   “Where did the “1-in-29,000 come from?
            Is that based on winning the championship,
            having the best […]

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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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