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Sports analytics is the use of statistical analysis to gain a competitive advantage in sports such as predicting player performance, predicting game outcomes, player evaluation, and team evaluation. Sports data is the collection of statistics about sports.
NBA Combine Bench Press: Predicts All-Stars?
Many non-statistical factors go into player evaluations and draft selection, and most of those take precedence over the…
Improve Your Basketball Shot with Battle Ropes, Plyometrics, and Grit
When the shot clock ticks down and the defense in a full-court press, every great basketball shot is…
Usain Bolt Top Speed Makes Him Superman on Titan
Usain Bolt’s top speed of 12.27 meters per second would be fast enough for him to take off…
Build and Measure Athleticism with Tests for Speed
Bursts of speed fascinate our athletic imagination and it’s for this reason that many sports use 20-m sprints,…
Why the Karvonen Formula is Important to Intensity
The Karvonen formula is the most common means to calculate your exercise intensity. It’s an equation that blends…
Why you Need to Pay Attention to Heart Rate Variability
The way we feel and how we perform during various activities depends on a lot of different factors.…
3 Swimming Sets to Improve your Endurance, Sprinting, and Technique
How to swim faster begins with great technique. Evolves into aerobic swimming improvements. And then focuses on anaerobic…
Top 20 Players from 2014 NFL Draft in 2020. Outliers and Value.
The 2014 NFL Draft was talent-rich. 34 Draft-eligible players went on to earn Pro Bowls. A whopping seven…
Exit Velocity or Launch Angle? Ask Baseball Savant.
Baseball Savant aspires to provide all the relevant statistics any casual baseball enthusiast could ever ask to understand.…
50M Freestyle World Record Chase
It’s always a good argument when comparing generational talents to previous ones. Especially when one generation is as…
