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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Does Coach Age Predict Performance? (Yes, but be careful.)
By David Roher I’m introducing the Speed Limit Coaching Corollary. If the coach of your favorite team is older than 55, or if your team is about to hire someone who’s older than 55, there’s a good chance you should … Continue reading
Posted in NCAA Football, NFL Football
Tagged Age, Bill Simmons, Bobby Bowden, Coaching, College Football, Joe Paterno, RAP, Regression, Survivor Bias
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What Do Professional Athletes Have in Common With Bankers?
By Daniel Adler Today, we will examine two industries. Neither produces a tangible product. Both have close ties to the government and receive billions of dollars in government assistance. Both pay their top performers millions of dollars. Wall Street firms … Continue reading
Posted in Business, MLB Baseball, NBA Basketball, NFL Football, NHL Hockey
Tagged Government Spending, MLB, Money, NBA, New England Patriots, NFL Football, NHL Hockey, Wall Street
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No Less Worth Despite Their Girth: A Study of Overweight Coaches
By David Roher If you missed Saturday’s post on RAP, a new college coaching stat, you should read it here. When Kansas’ Mark Mangino and Notre Dame’s Charlie Weis departed at the end of the regular season, many took the … Continue reading
Posted in NCAA Football
Tagged Charlie Weis, College Football, Jason Whitlock, Mark Mangino, Phil Fulmer, Ralph Friedgen, RAP, Tom Amstutz
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Introducing RAP: A New Stat for College Coaches
By David Roher Coach evaluation is a difficult task to approach analytically. I’m currently working on a paper on NBA coaching with other HSAC members, and it’s been very difficult work. Coaches can’t be held entirely responsible for the action … Continue reading
Posted in NCAA Basketball
Tagged Butch Jones, Coaching, College Football, College Sports, Competitive Balance, FEI, Football Outsiders, Gary Patterson, Houston Nutt, Mack Brown, RAP
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The Iverson Gap: Why Valuing Players Is Even Harder Than You Think
By David Roher Note: This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post. The value of Allen Iverson is one of the most contentious topics in the world of basketball statistics. HuffPost’s own Dave Berri is well known for thinking that … Continue reading
Posted in NBA Basketball
Tagged Allen Iverson, Business, Dave Berri, Derek Jeter, Economics Philadelphia 76ers, MLB, NBA, Player Value
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Weighing In On NFL Running Backs: Is Bigger Always Better?
By Jake Fisher and Elizabeth Fryman NFL running backs come in all shapes and sizes. Relative to other backs, Darren McFadden is tall (6’2) and skinny (210 lbs). Jerome Bettis was average (5’11) and large (255 lbs). The question we … Continue reading
How will Tiger do? A Statistical Look at Returns from Scandals Past
And that last part is kind of the point of this exercise. When Tiger does come back, the media is going to assign some causality to the current scandal, even if there is none whatsoever. If he’s bad early, it’ll because he’s distracted. If he dominates, it’ll be because he’s turned over a new leaf. The pattern is as predictable as it is stupid. My guess is that Tiger will continue to play golf the way that he did before. Maybe he’ll struggle in the first few tournaments, but he’ll round back into form pretty quickly. Continue reading
Posted in Golf
Tagged Babe Ruth, Golf, Manny Ramirez, Michael Jordan, Ricky Williams, Ron Artest, Scandals, Tiger Woods, Todd Bertuzzi, z-test
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Guest Speaker: Boston Celtics President Rich Gotham
By Elizabeth Fryman On the eve of the Boston Celtics’ ninth straight win, HSAC welcomed Celtics Team President Rich Gotham to speak at our last meeting of the semester.
A New Way to Measure Payroll Efficiency (And what it says about the Yankees and Parity)
By David Roher Note: This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post. Did the 2009 New York Yankees have the most efficient payroll in baseball? According to some recent research we’ve done, they did indeed. Just not in the conventional … Continue reading
Posted in MLB Baseball
Tagged Baseball, Competitive Balance, MLB, New York Yankees, Parity, Payroll, Salary, Yankees
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