Harvard Sports Analysis Collective

Regarding: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/sports/ncaabasketball/16score.html?_r=1&ref=sports
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If the Berger-Pope study (NY Times, March 15) becomes widely accepted, we eventually will see accounts like this.
                             WILEY’S BRILLIANT PLOY
Battling against University’s fabulous five for the National Championship, State trailed by a single point as halftime approached.  We know from Berger and Pope’s work that wins stem more often from one point […]

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Here’s an article written by a couple of our members, Haibo Lu ‘08 and Alex Ahmed ‘10, for our biweekly column in the Harvard weekly paper, The Harvard Independent (www.harvardindependent.com).  The type of prediction probability scoring that is discussed in the article is not limited to the NCAA basketball tournament - it has a lot of interesting applications.  Look for more on […]

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