sports

Hawk-Eye is a collection of technologies that allows high-granularity sports tracking, most notably…

I know next to nothing about soccer. Like there’s nothing, and then I’m…

In football video game Madden, NFL players are scored based on skill, which…

Michael Beuoy’s win probability model plotted on FiveThirtyEight starts all NBA teams at…

A data-centric look at New England Patriots fumble rates at home made the…

When a baseball player is hitting well, commentators will sometimes say that it…

George Murphy visualized the results of this year’s skateboarding tournament Battle at the…

So here’s a sport I don’t see or hear much about. F1 racing,…

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…

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…