Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Oct. 6, 2015), we discuss whether the Major League Baseball playoff system is subject to too much randomness, talk about Maya Moore […]
It’s time for real, live playoff baseball. Or as sabermetricians like to call it: the season where weird stuff happens. The playoffs are entirely different from the regular season, with an emphasis on top-tier starting pitching and the savvy usage of strong late-inning relief. Sabermetrics researchers have struggled in vain for years to pinpoint a […]
It’s time for real, live playoff baseball. Or as sabermetricians like to call it: the season where weird stuff happens. The playoffs are entirely different from the regular season, with an emphasis on top-tier starting pitching and the savvy usage of strong late-inning relief. Sabermetrics researchers have struggled in vain for years to pinpoint a […]
Dedicated (or even casual!) readers of our NFL, NBA, tennis or soccer coverage probably know that FiveThirtyEight loves it some Elo ratings. The Elo system, originally designed by a Hungarian-American physicist to rank competitive chess players, can be easily adapted to assess just about any form of competition, telling us who’s good and bad at […]
Dedicated (or even casual!) readers of our NFL, NBA, tennis or soccer coverage probably know that FiveThirtyEight loves it some Elo ratings. The Elo system, originally designed by a Hungarian-American physicist to rank competitive chess players, can be easily adapted to assess just about any form of competition, telling us who’s good and bad at […]
