Football: Josh Hermsmeyer tries to identify The Best Quarterback From The Much-Hyped 2018 Draft Class. Football Outsiders’ Week 7 DVOA Ratings. FiveThirtyEight says Don’t Tell Derrick Henry That Running Backs Don’t Matter. FiveThirtyEight examines Are The Chicago Bears Good Or Just Lucky? Daniel Chu’s tips to work with Big Data Bowl data. College Football: FiveThirtyEight finds  Home Teams Aren’t Winning As Much In College Football This Season. Football Outsiders’ FEI Week 7 Ratings. Baseball: Ben Lindbergh: The Shift May Have Cost the Braves a Pennant. Will It Co ..read more

Football: PFF’s Erik Eager Compares the impact of NFL offensive scheme changes in the first and second years. Eager also examines The statistical case for paying a star quarterbacks. The SIS blog’s John Shirley on How Experience Affects Quarterback Performance. Football Outsiders’ 2019-20 Deep Ball Project. College Football: The SIS blog’s Logan King examines  What’s the outlook at QB for Virginia in 2020? Baseball: Baseball Prospectus Searches For Pitch Tunneling Benefits. Bill James’ series on Speed and On Base Percentage,  More Speed Vs. OBP and Speed and ..read more

Football: PFF’s Austin Gayle on Why YAC ability is valuable but limited. Football Perspective’s HBCUs and the NFL Draft: The List. PFF’s Timo Riske on 2020 NFL Win Totals: Why betting Baltimore Ravens under 11.5 wins is a good idea. College Football: @Cooper_DFF has free college targets data back to 2010. Baseball: Baseball Prospectus Baseball Therapy: The Tranches of WAR. Bill James’ Index for Managers as to how hard they work their starting pitchers. FanGraphs finds The Biggest Losers in a Seasonless Season. The SIS blog’s Mark Simon: To The Victor Belongs The Great Defen ..read more

Football:  Rishav Dutta, Ronald Yurko and Samuel Ventura’s paper on Gaussian mixture models for NFL pass coverage with tracking data was accepted for publication in JQAS. PFF’s Kevin Cole examines Josh Allen, Sam Darnold and the elusive third-year breakout. Football Perspective offers a Draft History: A Look At The Rise And Fall Of Players From HBCUs and AFL vs NFL: The Drafts (1961-1966). Football Outsiders’ 2020 Free Agency Cost-Benefit Analysis. FiveThirtyEight wonders Will NFL Rookies Suffer Without Minicamps? Probably Not. The SIS blog looks at Dome-Field Advantag ..read more

Football: PFF’s Timo Riske Examines the trade market with 2020 NFL Draft trades. Sarah Mallepalle, Ronald Yurko, Konstantinos Pelechrinis and Samuel L. Ventura publish Extracting NFL tracking data from images to evaluate quarterbacks and pass defenses. Football Outsiders’ Adjusted Interceptions 2019.The SIS blog hands says there are Lots of Stat-Based Reasons To Feel Good About Kyler Murray. Nate Weller at The SIS blog looks at Which teams have given us the most exciting stretches of football. PFF’s Sam Monson with Production vs. volatility: Can a quarterback outproduce a bad tu ..read more

Football: PFF’s Eric Eager on The analytical standouts of the 2020 NFL Draft. Football Perspective examines The 2020 NFL Draft, Value By Position: Wide Receivers / Offense Dominate The Day and Draft Capital Used On Offensive Tackles and Interior Offensive Linemen. Football Outsiders guest column by Cole Jacobson on End-of-Half Strategy in the NFL. In another guest column, Caio Brighenti explains Why Successful Run Plays Work.The SIS blog hands out NFL Draft Team Grades Using the Football Rookie Handbook. FIveThirtyEight’s Josh Hermsmeyer on Which NFL Teams Reached ..read more

Football: Eric Eager’s PFF Data Study: How scheme changes influence offensive performance. Football Perspective examines Draft Capital Used On Wide Receivers Since 1967. Football Outsiders’ Playmaker Score 2020, SackSEER 2020 and 2019 Adjusted Games Lost: Part II. Neil Paine on Where ESPN’s NFL Draft Model Thinks Your Favorite Player Is Going. Neil also points out Brady With Gronk Is The Best Brady. FIveThirtyEight says The Atlanta Falcons Are Hoarding First-Round Talent. PFF’s Timo Riske Investigates spectacular past draft trades from an analytical perspecti ..read more

Football: FiveThirtyEight believes NFL Safeties Should Be Worth More Than Touchdowns. Football Perspective examines Which Tight Ends Played On The Most Efficient Passing Offenses. Football Outsiders’ 2019 Adjusted Games Lost: Part I and BackCAST 2020. The SIS blog’s Alex Vidgerman Introduces the Total Points System to College. Mark Simon Evaluates offensive line needs for teams that use certain run schemes the most. The SIS blog Evaluates The Downfield Aggression Of Quarterbacks. College Football: PFF’s Seth Galina offers A study in social distancing: How LSU isolated Ja’Ma ..read more

Football: Josh Hermsmeyer: The Extra Point blog dives into Probability models for the new 14-team playoff system. Football Outsiders’ Aaron Schatz with Playmaker Score 2020 (ESPN+ Version) and BackCAST 2020 (ESPN+ Version). Football Perspective: Andre Reed, Pro Bowls, and the AFC/NFC Receiver Disparity. Football Outsiders’ 2019 Offensive Line Continuity Scores and QBASE 2020. The SIS blog’s Nate Weller Evaluates Draft Prospects Using Predicted Completion Percentage. Baseball: Sarah Bailey’s paper on The Prediction of Batting Averages in Major League Baseball. Baseball Savant Tutorial #1: The S ..read more

Football: Josh Hermsmeyer: The NFL Was Weird Last Season. The SIS blog examines Which QBs received the most/least help from receivers on completions. Football Outsiders’ Aaron Schatz with QBASE 2020 (ESPN+ Version). Football Perspective writes The Shrinking Middle Class of QBs Applies To Age, Too. Football Outsiders’ QB Functional Mobility Model 2020. The SIS blog identifies the top red zone receivers among NFL prospects. Baseball: FanGraphs Is Asking for Your Help. Ben Clemens Updates the Pinch Hit Penalty, with a Few Rules of Thumb. Tom Tango’s Statcast Lab: Is there a different run value ne ..read more