Statistically Speaking

To get you set for the coming season, over the next few days I'll be giving you a rundown of some of the more under-appreciated skill po...

How big is third down? A stop on third down usually means the defense gets to leave the field and get some much needed respite as they prepa...

The goal of every statistical analysis in sports is to find out how 'good' a team really is. Many formulas exist to rank teams, and ...

Amazingly, this blog has just recently celebrated it's two-year anniversary. In the two years I've been blogging, this space has evo...

Who was the best college quarterback in 2006? Troy Smith won the Hesiman , Walter Camp, and Davey O'Brien awards. Brady Quinn won the Ma...

The impetus for this blog comes from some astute posting over at Kermit the Blog in regards to the relative paucity in quality opposition ...

Time and again I've espoused on this blog the virtues of using a team's Pythagorean winning percentage to project more accurately ho...

This is the first in a series of quasi-weekly pieces leading up to the beginning of the college football season where I analyze the SDPI of...

Which coaches earned their clipboards last season and which should be forced to hand in their headsets? Everyone’s got an opinion on which c...

When I blog about teams, I talk to a great extent about how luck and random chance are a significant determinant to which team wins a colleg...

A team's record in close games is a topic I have examined several times here at Statistically Speaking. Not to beat an old horse, but th...