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...
View ArticleOffensive-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”...
View ArticlePod 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...
View ArticleNCAA 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...
View ArticleJUST 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleCoaching 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...
View ArticleDivision 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleStats 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...
View ArticleReport 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...
View ArticleMeasuring 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...
View ArticleNCAA 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.
View ArticleNCAA 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...
View ArticleNCAA 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...
View ArticleDirectors’ 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleInvestment 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleInvestment 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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