Statistically Speaking

Does height have any effect on how well college quarterbacks play? Of course it does. The average Division I quarterback is taller than the ...

I doth believe UCLA is in for a decline. In baseball, the Pythagorean Theorem is a often a better indicator of team strength and usually a ...

Previously on this blog, I've debunked the fallacy that teams have an 'ability' to win close games. Now I want to take another l...

Last week, I posted a small regression analysis of year to year correlation of points scored versus points allowed. In the past week, I hav...

In keeping with the spirit of my previous post about consistency, I decided to conduct a little study to see which aspects of a college foot...

There are several different levels of consistentcy in college football. Some teams consistently win 6-7 games and go to a low-tier bowl, oth...

The worst 10-win team of the past decade is a category akin to the ugliest supermodel, and weakest strongman. A few days ago, I said Mississ...

The Crying Game The retirement of players, the recent departure of Jacksonville receiver Jimmy Smith a perfect example, often gives rise to...

I know I've been critical in this space of the 2005 incarnation of the UCLA Bruins, going so far as to call them the worst 10-win team o...

On Sunday, Greg Maddux continued his early season wizardry by holding the St. Louis Cardinals scoreless through 7 innings to run his record ...

It seems as if every year so far this decade some college football program rises from (relative) obscurity and becomes a fixture in the nati...

Methinks the NC St. faithful will soon find out what Cinderella sang about in in 1988. You don't know what you got till it's gone. O...

With the NIT Final 4 beginning tonite, it begs the question: Does advancing in the NIT correlate with an NCAA tournament bid the following s...

March Madness is my favorite time of year. However, I picked Kansas to go to the Final 4, so my bracket is now dust in the wind. So I'd ...

It's finally here. March Madness is upon us. All data related to efficiency and tempo come from Ken Pomeroy's site . Atlanta Bracket...