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Football Offensive Style and Attendance – Does Style of Play Matter?

What is the impact of a pass-oriented versus a run-oriented offense on wins (i.e., is one strategy more successful?) and attendance (i.e., is more enjoyable to watch?) in automatic-qualifying (AQ) and...

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Offensive-Minded vs. Defensive-Minded NCAA Football Head Coaching Performance

They say “defense wins championships,” but do defensive-minded head coaches outperform offensive-minded coaches? To find out, we classified NCAA Division I head coaches as either “Offensive-Minded”...

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Pod System in Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament — What Is the Impact on...

Since the implementation of the pod system in 2002 gave the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament Selection Committee a greater opportunity to keep teams closer to home for first- and...

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NCAA March Madness for Men’s Basketball – Optimizing for Tournament Selection

How does the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament Selection Committee pick the teams that get to participate in the tournament each year? And more importantly, is there a mathematical formula...

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JUST WIN, EHH!!: The Impact of Winning on Filling a College Hockey Arena

By Michael Schuckers and Zach Nelson St. Lawrence University, Statistical Sports Consulting, LLC     During the 2007-2008 season, the Air Force Falcons men’s hockey team won just over 60% of its games,...

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The First Steps to an NCAA Dynasty: Repeating as National Champions

Looking at individual NCAA sports in each of the three divisions, here are the ones in which there have been the most (>50%) and the fewest (<20%) repeats, excluding sports that have awarded...

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Coaching Turnover’s Effect on Attendance and Winning Percentage

By: Jacob Feldman, Harvard University It was all going so well. The Hawaii men’s basketball team had just finished its eighth straight winning season after another year of strong attendance. But then...

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Division II College Football: Scheduling Games Against FCS Opponents

By: Jordan Sperber, Villanova University With two of the winningest programs in NCAA college football history—Pittsburg State and Tuskegee—Division II college football offers an exciting accompaniment...

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The DI Directors’ Cup: An Introduction to Recent Movers

Stanford has built quite a cozy nest for itself atop the Directors’ Cup rankings. The Cardinal have finished first in the standings for 18 consecutive years since North Carolina took home the inaugural...

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Stats Speak – Ken Pomeroy

Winthrop Intelligence: Stats Speak – Ken Pomeroy. In our first podcast, we talk to Ken Pomeroy of Kenpom.com about his latest research on the significance of scoring margin in college basketball. Read...

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Report on the Outsourced Ticketing Market in Division-I College Athletics

The outsourcing of ticket operations is a growing trend within college athletics. In exchange for fixed fees, commissions, and other considerations, schools expect to realize revenue growth through...

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Measuring Athletic Departmental Efficiency

The need for postsecondary institutions to field highly successful and revenue-generating athletic programs is well documented. Postsecondary institutions need successful athletic programs to both...

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NCAA Football: Home-Field Advantage and Long-Distance Travel

How much of an advantage is playing on home turf for college football teams? What about teams traveling outside of their time zone? Winthrop Intelligence investigates.    

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NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Matchup Simulation: How Big of an Upset Was It?

BY: ZACHARY HASS AND THOMAS NIELSEN, PURDUE UNIVERSITY   As many advances as we have made with statistical analysis…and the more effort is placed in trying to deduce talent…every once in a while...

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NCAA Men’s Basketball Budgets: Coaches and Insights for Program Growth

This weekend all eyes will be on Atlanta, GA, where over the course of the last five months, 347 Division-1 men’s basketball programs have been whittled down to just 4 vying to win a coveted national...

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Directors’ Cup Versus Capital One Cup: Comparison and Counsel

The “success” of an athletic department is an awfully abstract notion. Is the successful department the one that wins the most championships? The one that wins certain championships? The one with the...

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The First Steps to an NCAA Dynasty: Repeating as National Champions

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Investment and Return: Northern Baseball Programs’ Innovative Success

It doesn’t require a brilliant analysis to see that the College World Series field consistently skews south and west. No “northern” school—defined as north of 38 degrees N latitude—has claimed the...

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The First Steps to an NCAA Dynasty: Repeating as National Champions

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Investment and Return: Northern Baseball Programs’ Innovative Success

No “northern” school—defined as north of 38 degrees N latitude—has claimed the College World Series title since Wichita State accomplished the feat in 1989. The Big Ten as a whole hasn’t visited Omaha...

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