What if I told you that Adrian Peterson isn’t as good as his stats say? My reasoning is the Curse of the Leading Rusher. You’ve never heard of it before, but it’s an obvious trend. Since 1980, the NFL ...
Matt Cassel was terrific in the red zone in 2011. But will that continue this season? Jamie Squire/Getty Images NOT TO GET too cosmic on you, but there is an unwritten law that governs the sports we ...
High stock prices, low interest rates and non-existent volatility have lulled investors into a false sense of security. Avoid the temptation to extrapolate events of the immediate past into the ...
Richard Russell, an exceptionally well-regarded Dow Theorist, explained that a stock market can do absolutely anything over short periods of time. Yet, over longer periods, the greatest certainty is ...
Regression to the mean has the potential to fool everyone, even NBA coaches building systems of positive and negative reinforcement. These are challenging times, but one thing I’ve enjoyed about ...
Regression models predict outcomes like housing prices from various inputs. Machine learning enhances regression by analyzing large, complex datasets. Different regression types address varied data ...
Adrian Barnett receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Statistics is a useful tool for understanding the patterns in the world around us. But our intuition often lets ...
Peter Keating is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine, where he covers investigative and statistical subjects. His column, The Numbers, appears in every issue. Matt Cassel was terrific in the red zone ...