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An article delves into the challenges of evaluating college baseball pitchers amidst increased offensive production, proposing adjusted statistics to highlight standout performers and identify potential draft prospects undervalued due to the run-scoring environment of college baseball. Meanwhile, concerns about fairness and competitive balance arise with the NFL schedule's growing imbalance in rest days, travel distances, and competitive factors, suggesting a need for greater scrutiny to maintain fairness and competitive balance among teams.
This Week's Lineup
Standardizing College Statistics: Evaluating Pitchers
delves into the challenges of evaluating college baseball pitchers amidst increased offensive production, utilizing adjusted statistics to highlight standout performers and identify potential draft prospects undervalued due to the run-scoring environment of college baseball.
The NFL schedule is growing ever more unfair
The NFL schedule's growing imbalance in rest days, travel distances, and competitive factors suggests a need for greater scrutiny to maintain fairness and competitive balance among teams.
Revolutionizing NBA Team Composition with Modern Portfolio Theory
The application of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) to NBA team management involves assessing players as assets with quantifiable returns and risks, optimizing team compositions to achieve a balance between player performance, risk, and salary efficiency, ultimately offering a strategic framework for building balanced and competitive NBA teams.
A Deeper Dive Into Pitcher Usage Trends
Starter usage trends over the past half-decade show a modest decline in both pitches and innings per start across all tiers of pitchers, from top starters to the general population, suggesting a uniform shift towards shorter outings without significant divergence among elite pitchers or changes in distribution patterns.
Introducing Expected Sacks: Measuring the Value of QB Pressures
Introduces a model-based approach for assessing pressure in football, primarily focusing on predicting sacks by analyzing factors like defender proximity to the quarterback and engagement status, with insights derived from expected sack values and their impact on play outcomes, guiding future steps towards refining pressure evaluation methods.
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