Insider NHL simulations reveal the final playoff teams
This is the time of year you'll see various prognosticators run millions of simulated seasons to come up with their baseball predictions. I'm generall…
Insider The surprising truth about MLB injuries
Five years ago, I spoke with Frank Coonelly, then MLB's chief labor counsel, about the Redbook, the annual injury analysis that baseball used to order…
Insider Why Dwight Howard is overrated
Only about 20 percent of defensive plays show up in basketball box scores, which convey far less information about how points are stopped than basebal…
Insider MLB's days lost to injury continue to rise
This is how information spreads these days: A few years ago, Tom Tango developed a model for a baseball injury database based on disabled-list transac…
Insider The NHL concussion debate continues
The NHL has returned to a season that, before the Olympics, probably had been most memorable for its horrible head injuries. It's hard to say which wa…
Insider The fantasy value of runs per hit
March is here, which means keeper lists are due any minute, drafts are around the corner and it's time for me to share my best idea for finding fantas…
Insider The sabermetrics of curling
As the Vancouver Winter Games enter their final weekend, I have one suggestion: Get into curling! Get into it not like these effete trillionaires, b…
Insider How forecasters overhyped Canada
At the start of Thursday's competition, Canadian athletes had earned just 15 medals in Vancouver, a bitter disappointment for the host country's exten…
Insider What the age of a medalist tells us
Over the past two weeks, J.C. Bradbury of Sabernomics has been looking into a series of interesting issues at the fantastic Olympics-Reference blog, l…
Insider Figure skating judging still gets it wrong
Have you noticed something odd about the figure skating results in the Olympics? There are no individual judges' scores! We know how skaters rate ove…