Sabermetrics -- or analytics or advanced metrics or whatever you want to call it -- are an important and indelible part of baseball these days. They illuminate aspects of the game that traditional ...

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (24) puts up a shot against Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah (13), forward Luol Deng (9), guard Ronnie Brewer (11) and forward Taj Gibson as time expires in the ...

Statistics are everywhere, in every industry, but they're a must for anyone working in data science, business, or business analytics. If you're in one of these specialized fields, chances are you need ...

Advanced statistics are not really all that advanced, and the ideas they convey are not especially complicated. Despite the idea that they require complex spreadsheets and lots of math, most of the ...

The Habs’ powerplay is one of the club’s major strengths this season. The Habs have a 25% man-advantage efficiency rate this ...

Work with real data. Clean data, deal with missing data values, and appreciate the complexities of handling real-world data. With an advanced degree in statistics or applied statistics, you’ll be ...

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 ...

Since their introduction, the prevalence of advanced statistics in fantasy football to the point of ubiquity has served as both a blessing and a curse. Use led directly (and perhaps predictably) to ...

Since their introduction, the prevalence of advanced statistics in fantasy football to the point of ubiquity has served as both a blessing and a curse. Use led directly (and perhaps predictably) to ...