One blind spot of the analytics movement has been its underappreciation of postseason play. I don’t necessarily mean that “COUNT THE RINGZ” is a better paradigm. But there are all sorts of interesting empirical questions raised by the playoffs that analysts have sometimes ignored. Are the factors that yield postseason success different than those that […]
UPDATE (Dec. 5, 2:45 p.m.): The interactive tables above have been updated to include the results of Thursday’s DAL-CHI match-up, and that game has been removed (the text of the article has not been updated). The San Diego Chargers’ playoff chances, once as high as 75 percent, were on the verge of dropping into single […]
UPDATE (Dec. 5, 2:45 p.m.): The interactive tables above have been updated to include the results of Thursday’s DAL-CHI match-up, and that game has been removed (the text of the article has not been updated). The San Diego Chargers’ playoff chances, once as high as 75 percent, were on the verge of dropping […]
On Friday, an arbitrator overturned the indefinite suspension of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who violently assaulted his then-fiancee (now wife) in an elevator in February. The arbitrator found that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was not misled by Rice when Goodell initially suspended Rice for two games, and that Goodell’s decision to extend […]
On Friday, an arbitrator overturned the indefinite suspension of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who violently assaulted his then-fiancee (now wife) in an elevator in February. The arbitrator found that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was not misled by Rice when Goodell initially suspended Rice for two games, and that Goodell’s decision to extend […]
