The world is full of uncertainty: accidents, storms, unruly financial markets, noisy communications. The world is also full of data. Probabilistic modeling and the related field of statistical ...

Cynthia Frelund dives into the numbers to quantify the impact of Tackle Probability using Next Gen Stats' Tackle Probability model. A look back at the five fastest ball carriers from the first half of ...

This paper contrasts three approaches to modeling the Federal Communications Commission's comparative broadcast licensing decisions: the linear probability model, binary logit analysis, and ...

Football has often been described as a game won in the trenches. For years, however, quantifying the performance of individual blockers and pass rushers remained a challenge. Traditional statistics ...