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Tag Archives: College Football
Analyzing the Lagged Effect of College Football Recruiting
By Kevin Meers Player projection is tricky, a process that gets less accurate when we have limited knowledge of the players we are trying to evaluate. Given our particular lack of information on high school players, in comparison to what … Continue reading
The 2010 College Football Attendance Rankings
By Alex Koenig Earlier in the week I looked at trends in college football attendance, assessing the effect of a variety of factors on fan attendance from 2008 to 2010. Trends may be more telling than individual cases, but in … Continue reading
What Factors Contribute to Attendance in College Football?
By Alex Koenig A while back, John Ezekowitz and I tackled the question of attendance in the NBA and whether or not there are “must-see” road teams. Not surprisingly, our study showed that the opponent’s winning % was the most … Continue reading
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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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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Should Pitt Have Pulled a Westbrook? Does Brian Kelly Play Madden?
By Daniel Adler This article also appears on Huffington Post. Today’s de facto Big East Championship between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati provides us here at HSAC another chance to analyze some interesting late game coaching strategy. Today, we will take a … Continue reading
Posted in NCAA Football
Tagged cincinnati, clock management, College Football, Football, pitt, strategy
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Yet Another Article on a Controversial 4th Down Call from a New England Team…Yale
By David Roher Harvard and Yale played their 126th football game (known around these parts simply as “The Game”) yesterday. We elected not to do a preview on the blog because the outcome was obviously a near certainty. However, it … Continue reading
Posted in NCAA Football
Tagged Bill Belichick, Coaching, College Football, Football, Harvard, The Game, Tom Williams, Win Probability, Yale
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