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 Week 17 of the ...

Blaming the secondary for the troublse the Baltimore Ravens are experiencing on defense this season has become common, but statistics reveal a deeper problem. Hidden in the numbers, there’s a fatal ...

With half the basketball season complete and a quarter of the conference schedule in the books, it’s time to take a serious ...

In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

Next Gen Stats looks at the completion probability for Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver John Ross' touchdown catch against the Baltimore Ravens in Week 11 of the 2018 NFL season. A look back at the ...

I was thinking more about David Brooks’s anti-data column from earlier in the week, and I realized what is really bothering me. Brooks expresses skepticism about numbers, about the limitations of raw ...

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread From the Data. By Charles Wheelan. Norton; 282 pages; $26.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk DATA are everywhere these days; the problem is making sense of ...