sports

When you hear about sports analytics in the news or when announcers talk…

Leading up to a Nike women’s 10k run, design studio Variable made FuelBand…

LeBron James decided to head back to Cleveland, so naturally the odds that…

I’m pretty sure xkcd is the only one who gets away with showing…

Gregor Aisch for the New York Times explored how the soccer clubs that…

Football players are getting bigger. Noah Veltman, a developer for the WNYC Data…

Stephen Pettigrew and Reuben Fischer-Baum, for Regressing, compared 11 million brackets on ESPN.com…

With player tracking installed in all of the NBA arenas, the sports analytics…

After he noticed gambling odds fluctuate wildly at the end of a football…

When you watch sports, it can sometimes feel like the stat guy pulls…

You’ve probably heard of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. The idea is…

Mike Bostock, Shan Carter, and Kevin Quealy for The New York Times explore…

Kirk Goldsberry, known for his basketball analysis and shot charts, has applied his…

Patrick Burns for Deadspin watched 23,000 minutes of SportsCenter, keeping track of the…

Using Opta data for assists in the Premier League, Kickdex made this straightforward…

Ritchie King for Quartz compared money spent on Super Bowl ads — now…

Lots of data, but there’s resistance because looking at people through numbers seems wrong

With NCAA March Madness in full swing, the basketball graphics are out in…

Heading towards the 2012 Olympics in London, Quayola and Memo Aktenvia translate athletic…

Kirk Goldsberry, an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State, applies his skills…