Defense doesn't matter in Fantasy leagues. Sure, there are some leagues that count errors, but they are fairly rare. For the most part, an owner doesn't care about owning a terrible defensive player ...

Five years ago quarterbacks around the league threw for an average of 240.2 yards per game. Now that has plummeted to 212.3 ...

Nebraska may have been the first school to hire a person devoted solely to sports analytics, but it is not alone in college football using advanced metrics. There’s more data available than ever ...

As was mentioned in our preview of advanced hitting stats, we’re really excited about the addition of advanced stats for Yahoo Fantasy Baseball. And advanced metrics are especially valuable for ...

Health researchers need to fully understand the underlying assumptions to uncover cause and effect. Timothy Feeney and Paul Zivich explain Physicians ask, answer, and interpret myriad causal questions ...

(The full, nine-inning Playbook was originally published during the spring of 2020. It has been updated for 2021 where applicable.) Baseball is such a different game today than it was when rotisserie ...

Helping as many as possible to better understand the meanings behind the statistics and models that make up advanced hockey stat analysis is essential when it comes to expanding the conversations ...

In 2002, Billy Beane’s Oakland Athletics team revolutionized baseball by minimizing subjective human input through the use of advanced statistics. This approach dumbed down the game into one that ...

Young Tiger Woods—which I'm defining here as the period before he turned 30, encompassing eight major wins from his 1997 ...