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Building Hockey’s Advanced Stats Dream Team

Last week, the basketball website Ballislife.com tweeted a fun exercise, asking NBA fans to pick their dream starting five. The catch? It assigned dollar values to each legend and set up a monetary constraint which no lineup’s total cost could exceed. Do you want Michael Jordan as your starting shooting guard? OK, but he’ll cost […]

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Building Hockey’s Advanced Stats Dream Team

Last week, the basketball website Ballislife.com tweeted a fun exercise, asking NBA fans to pick their dream starting five. The catch? It assigned dollar values to each legend and set up a monetary constraint which no lineup’s total cost could exceed. Do you want Michael Jordan as your starting shooting guard? OK, but he’ll cost […]

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What Predicts Whether an NHL Coach Will Be Fired, And Whether It Matters

Edmonton Oilers coach Ralph Krueger was on vacation in Switzerland last June when Skype popped up with a contact request. It was from Craig MacTavish, who had become general manager of the Oilers eight weeks earlier. Krueger accepted the request, and then MacTavish told Krueger that he was fired. “I definitely didn’t see it coming,” […]

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What Predicts Whether an NHL Coach Will Be Fired, And Whether It Matters

Edmonton Oilers coach Ralph Krueger was on vacation in Switzerland last June when Skype popped up with a contact request. It was from Craig MacTavish, who had become general manager of the Oilers eight weeks earlier. Krueger accepted the request, and then MacTavish told Krueger that he was fired. “I definitely didn’t see it coming,” […]

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What We Know About Kids, Sports And Concussions

On Thursday, President Obama held a summit at the White House on youth sports and concussions, an issue that has grown increasingly salient. During the summit, representatives from the NCAA and NFL, along with other athletic groups and government organizations, announced a host of research initiatives to learn more about head injuries suffered by kids […]

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