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85th issue.

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This Week's Lineup

The Players Entering the World Baseball Classic With Something to Prove

Good teaser for the World Baseball Classic with a few new metrics. Discipline+ is one. Javy Baez, woof!

Houston’s historically mighty shot volume

Cougars with the highest Shot Volume Index since 2018.

College Football Recruiting Patterns

Change up! College football recruiting patterns with GIS analytics. Video inside.

How Massive The NFL Really Is, In 4 Charts

Stellar visualizations show The Shield's dominance.

A machine learning framework for sport result prediction

Paper alert! Provides a critical analysis of the literature in ML, focusing on the application of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to sports results prediction.

Weekly Unexpected Quote

“Yeah, I definitely tend towards dry, sarcastic British humor. I actually aspire to be British - I'm pasty white as well.”

Daryl Morey

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