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...made, and Swanay now operates a growing fantasy baseball advice website called FantasyBaseballSherpa.com (along with a pigskin counterpart, FantasyFootballSherpa.com).Swanay’s site uses statistical analysis to predict players’ performances for upcoming seasons and rank the players accordingly. Subscribers can then reference these rankings as they draft their fantasy squads.Other sites offer similar services, but Swanay has taken measures to distinguish himself from the competition. For example, one feature of his site is a forecasting system that continues to adjust and make new predictions throughout the season, instead of making one prediction of a player?...
Before coming to Harvard, Rogers was drafted by the New York Islanders in the fourth round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. The prospect is a well-rounded player known for his shooting ability and passing vision...
...playing soccer in Argentina. His potential employers: not Google or Goldman Sachs, but rather, the Seattle Sounders—a Major League Soccer expansion team.Yesterday, Fucito flew to Buenos Aires with the hopes of impressing the MLS club enough over the nine-day training trip to receive a contract.Seattle drafted the Westford, Mass. native with their first selection of the fourth round of the MLS SuperDraft (46th overall) on January 15. Fucito became the fourth Crimson player chosen since the MLS draft’s inception in 1996. He was one of two Ivy League players drafted.Being drafted...
Investors have deserted GE's stock over the last week like draft dodgers fleeing to Canada. The firm's shares fell more than 20% over the five trading days, and now sit near a multi-year low of just below $9, 25% of its 52-week high. Even though GE's financial services operation is only one of many parts of the company, its shares have done much worse over the last year than JPMorgan (JPM) or Goldman Sachs (GS). It is as if GE's large and healthy infrastructure business did not even exist...
...Committee on College Life discussed a report on student life drafted by University officials on Wednesday, in preparation for this year’s formal review of Harvard’s academic and institutional standards. The review marks an important step in Harvard’s bid to renew its accreditation—the national certification of the University’s curricular standards issued each decade. Wednesday’s meeting provided student and administrative representatives their first opportunity to put their stamp on the report, whose initial draft was assembled primarily through the use of institutional data. Harvard...