Statistically Speaking

In our final BCS conference SDPI examination of the 2011 college football season, we come to the SEC, home of the last six national champion...

This week in our SDPI journey, we attempt to shed our east-coast bias and examine the Pac-12. To see last year's post on what was then k...

We're already halfway through the BCS conferences on our SDPI-guided journey through the 2011 college football season. We'll turn th...

In our SDPI jaunt through college football, we now head to the midwest. Home of dairy, corn, and some pretty good football in 2011. To check...

In the second installment of our SDPI sojourns, we take a look at the Big East, a conference that will be changing somewhat in 2012 (swappin...

I know a lot of regular readers were becoming worried that the offseason SDPI recaps had slowly gone the way of the buffalo. Fear not, SDPI ...

Regardless of what any talking head or former player may say on ESPN regarding intangibles and heart, team success is a function of the poin...

Last time out, I published a piece examining how extremely lucky or unlucky teams perform the season after they experienced extreme fortune ...

Perhaps one of the more ubiquitous themes I have promulgated in the nearly seven years I have been writing this blog is that close game are ...

While calculating my mid-season SDPI ratings back in October, I got the notion that this year's Alabama team could be one of the best c...

The Game: BCS National Championship Game The Teams: Alabama vs LSU The Line: Alabama -1 I'll say this for LSU, they have impeccable timi...

The Game: Sugar Bowl The Teams: Michigan vs Virginia Tech The Line: Michigan -3 Congratulations are in order for Virginia Tech. The Hokies s...