Harvard Sports Analysis Collective

HSAC has a new online home: www.harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com
From now on, this is where all HSAC content will be posted. Thanks for visiting the site!

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I don’t follow college basketball, but that hardly matters this time of year. If you’re like me, you need a good way to figure out how to make a bracket without knowing anything about the teams playing. By following a statistical framework and mixing in your own judgment about upsets (or just random guessing), you’ll […]

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Surrounded by nachos, mozzarella sticks, and fierce competition, HSAC dominated sports trivia night at the Queen’s Head Pub this Thursday. HSAC was pleased to host Baseball at Tufts (BAT) for this fun evening on campus. From our small booth in the pub, HSAC achieved a near-perfect score on the night’s questions, earning a sound victory […]

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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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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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