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Team Chemistry is Planet Nine

Former planet Pluto is now categorized into a group called the “Trans-Neptunian Objects” – basically anything past Neptune, the last planet in our solar system. Some bloke realized that 6 of these Trans-Neptunian Objects had orbits that were out of…

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Don’t quit your day job: Daily fantasy football is probably more chance than skill

What’s in a word? For daily fantasy leagues, one word is worth about $1 billion dollars. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 carefully excluded fantasy sports from their legislation. The 31 U.S. Code 5362 1.E.IX.II1 states the following: “All…

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Measuring team chemistry with social science theory

Every athlete, professional or otherwise, talks about that feeling of being on a team. There’s something that happens when a team “clicks” – it’s a united feeling of team spirit that propels team members to compete, most often referred to…

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The NFL might have a growing poverty problem

For many athletes, sports are an escape from the daily grind. The freedom of sports is often the perfect panacea to the workplace or classroom. However, for some aspiring professional athletes, sports can represent much more than just an escape…

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Analytics are good, but psychometrics can make them great

This is not about a relief pitcher resting horizontally on a comfy couch as he spills his deepest darkest secrets to a furrowed, bearded psychologist, nor is this about prescribing medication to a team’s severely depressed kicker who just missed…

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Why the Washington Redskins need to draft a running back

Not long ago, the duo of Robert Griffin III and Alfred Morris gave Washington a combination of youth and productivity that suggested good things were in the team’s future. Of course, that has not been the case. The team hasn’t won a playoff game…

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Sloan 2015: The Gilded Age of Analytics

“It was like my entire Twitter suddenly came alive.” The popularity, even for the nerdiest of humans, was difficult to deny. Their glistening faces were certainly the main attraction for most attendees and the major come-on for cash starved ESPN…

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