Tag: statistics
Introducing the AMSTS Baseball Organizational Rankings!
In an effort to make the success of an organization more clear, we have introduced the AMSTS Baseball Organizational Rankings. This allows you to play around with the sliders to appropriately weight the value of each league, from MLB to the Rookie League, to see what organization tops your list. Methodology: For the default rankings,…
Best and Worst of the NCAA Basketball 2015-16 Regular Season: All 351 Teams!
It’s that time of the year again. The college basketball regular season has ended, bringing us the most exciting tournament in all of sports. But before they cut down the nets and show One Shining Moment, let’s take a look at who accomplished what in the regular season this year. In the spirit of the statistical…
How Long Is The Road to the Final Four For All 68 Teams?
We’ve heard it before: The Road to the Final Four is long and painful. But exactly how long is it? For some of the teams, it seems like they always get opening round games right down the road. For the rest of us, it seems like our team has to cross nine time zones to…
NCAA Basketball Attendance, Week 18: The Highest and Lowest Attended Games
It’s the last week of the regular season this year in college basketball, so naturally attendance is up as varying schools host their senior night festivities. As such, attendance at the big schools tends to rise while those at the bottom never see too much of a bump, as this week we have the same…
NEC, Ohio Valley & America East Conference Championship Preview
Editor note: This continues a series of conference tournament previews for the worst conferences in college basketball. Every day we will preview the conference tournaments for the non “Power” conferences that will begin on that day. Today we have the Northeast Conference, the Ohio Valley, and the America East. With apologies to the former USSR, here is the…
Tuesday’s Minnesota vs Rutgers Game Will Still Be Historically Bad Basketball
Okay, so Minnesota ruined it. Everyone had been looking forward to seeing two 0-14 (in conference) teams play one another on Tuesday. If that had happened, and the rest of the season played out with the bottom two teams in the conference having a combined 2 wins (against each other), it would’ve been the first…
Point Distribution by Conference in NCAA Basketball, or “How Terrible the SWAC is in One Graph”
With the new shot clock rules in the NCAA this season, as expected, scoring has increased dramatically. Everyone knows that. Here are the charts that show it: Similar in distribution, but with a shift of about 10-12%. Given that the shot clock was reduced by 14%, this is what we’d expect. There’s no…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 14: The Best and Worst of the Week
Numbers have somewhat bounced back this week after the winter storm that shook the east coast a couple of weeks ago, overall average attendance is slightly up this week. Where the attendance changes are mostly seen are on the bottom of the list, however, as fewer teams drew sub 1000 compared to last week (only 16 this week,…
Wednesday Web Roundup for February 2, 2016
2nd Edition of the Wednesday Web Roundup, and here’s what we have. First off, we have a simple hour and twenty minute Youtube video for you. What about, you ask? It’s just the highest scoring game of all time as Troy State defeated DeVry (yes, DeVry) 258-141. That’s even with a 45 second shot clock.…
Super Bowl Names: An Analysis of Every First Name that Has Started in the Big Game
The Super Bowl is only just over a week away, which means that next week, you will get all the Super Bowl coverage you could possibly imagine. But rather than simply looking forward to one game, I decided to take a look back at the history of the game in it’s most fundamental piece: the…
What is Home Court Advantage Worth in College Basketball?
As the 2015-16 College Basketball season passes its halfway point, it’s worth taking a look at the value of a home game. Various people have done it in the past, but none of it has been updated for 2015-16, and we’ll look at how best to do it. First off, we’ll take every game played…
Boeing Cubs? Kroger Reds? What MLB Teams Would Look Like if Corporate Sponsors Got Naming Rights
Editor note: Today’s post is by AMSTS’ newest contributor, “AirBall”. Japanese baseball is a blast – I recommend taking in a game if you ever have the chance. The crowd is incredibly committed, and if you’re not Japanese you’ll probably be on the Jumbotron a few times. The best part? You’ll be able to watch the…