With half the basketball season complete and a quarter of the conference schedule in the books, it’s time to take a serious ...

In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

Blaming the secondary for the troublse the Baltimore Ravens are experiencing on defense this season has become common, but statistics reveal a deeper problem. Hidden in the numbers, there’s a fatal ...

I was thinking more about David Brooks’s anti-data column from earlier in the week, and I realized what is really bothering me. Brooks expresses skepticism about numbers, about the limitations of raw ...

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Australia could have a “measuring problem”, meaning the population is more than one million people above the official figures ...

During a recent casual conversation with someone who has been intimately involved in the NHL for decades, he jokingly said this: “You ever think that all of these off-ice officials are actually the ...

Cynthia Frelund dives into the numbers to quantify the impact of Tackle Probability using Next Gen Stats' Tackle Probability model. A look back at the five fastest ball carriers from Week 17 of the ...

Cynthia Frelund dives into the numbers to quantify the impact of pressure using Next Gen Stats' new Pressure Probability model. A look back at the five fastest ball carriers from Week 17 of the 2025 ...