So some interesting things going on here. Our numbers put Carolina just ahead of the Saints, even though they’re tied. They have both of their games against one another left. I think, since the other two teams on their respective schedules are bad teams, just different bad teams (Jets and Falcons for the Panthers, Rams…

Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: If there was any doubt that so-called nerds are starting to take over the sports world, look no further than the New York Times 4th-down bot, a collaboration with Brian Burke of http://www.advancednflstats.com, which features minute-by-minute analysis of NFL coaches’ fourth-down decisions. At each fourth-down in an NFL game, the Bot…

Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: The Harvard Sports Group posted an interesting tweet this evening https://twitter.com/Harvard_Sports/status/408045655819833344 This brings up an few points with respect to fumble risk and fumble luck among NFL ball- carriers. The overall numbers indicate that the Patriots running back of choice against the Texans, Blount, actually may have a higher likelihood of…

Only 3 teams in the Sagarin ratings have 4 or more wins against top 30 teams this year: Stanford (5), Arizona State (5) and Notre Dame (4). Arizona State has 2 losses this year: Stanford and Notre Dame. Just sayin’. My rankings Cheers.

  Rank Team Record 1 ARIZONA STATE 10-2 2 MISSOURI 11-1 3 STANFORD 10-2 4 SO CAROLINA 10-2 5 MICHIGAN STATE 11-1 6 ALABAMA 11-1 7 AUBURN 11-1 8 FLORIDA STATE 12-0 9 OREGON 10-2 10 OHIO STATE 12-0 11 WASHINGTON 8-4 12 GEORGIA 8-4 13 WISCONSIN 9-3 14 OKLAHOMA STATE 10-1 15 BYU 8-4…

  Another week and we are really no closer to settling this sixth AFC spot. The fins took a big step towards it, but we still have those Titans (who if you’ll recall, I said was the team with the easiest path… way to take advantage of that, fellas) hanging around, and, despite being a…

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Each pair of quadrilaterals represents one hand of the punto banco version of Baccarat. The length, width, and color of each shape is determined by the value of each of the two hands. Larger numbers appear closer to red/orange while lower colors appear more blue. The transparency of each losing hand is controlled by the…

Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: In a previous post, I described how incentives for NHL teams to play overtime games against certain types of opponents are stronger than ever in the league’s newest point system. Through the first eight weeks of the season, here are the frequencies with which games have gone to overtime, by type.…

Updated: November 21, 2013 Pro: The rankings are based on how a team performs and accounts for how many points they would be expected to score based on their statistical output such as rushing yards, passing yards, etc.  This ranking considers past seasons statistics with heavier weights placed on games that are more recent.  This…