Word: stat
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There is less data, and it is less trustworthy. I’m only a month into Stat 100, but I can tell you that’s not good if you’re trying to reduce risk...
...LONG USED VIDEO ANALYSIS AND THE STAT APPROACH MADE FAMOUS IN THE BOOK MONEYBALL. HOW HAS THAT CHANGED THE GAME? I think there's been some fundamental changes in scouting and player evaluation. A lot of teams are taking a very different approach as far as looking at young players, moving away from some of the physical things that mattered in the past and focusing on drafting and bringing in baseball players. For my performance, there are statistics that have always mattered to me--base runners per nine innings, hits and walks per inning pitched, opponents' batting average. Things like...
...change in philosophy of Ivy offenses speaks to this uncertainty factor as well. The Ancient Eight has usually been stereotyped as a pass-oriented league, one which facilitates shootouts and playstation-like stat lines. This season, however, three Ivy running backs—Dawson, Brown’s Nick Hartigan and Yale’s Robert Carr—rank among the top seven in the nation in terms of rushing yards per game and Dawson leads the country in scoring with 18 points per contest...
There were single games one year ago in which that might have been his stat line if Harvard coach Tim Murphy had just let him play all four quarters...
...Crimson’s first five games, only once did it not possess the advantage in corners—the game against Penn on Sept. 11, when the Quakers held an 11-8 margin. That game also marked Harvard’s lowest total in the stat...