Harvard Sports Analysis Collective

Released from the NFC’s glamorous Cowboys and snatched up in a hurry by the AFC’s equally glamorous Bills, Terrell Owens found himself a fresh start at the age of 35. But given last year’s production, Football Outsiders’ Bill Barnwell asks, Is T.O. Done?

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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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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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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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