In a recent post for FiveThirtyEight , Carl Bialik took a look at the length of college basketball games, particularly the grueling slog t...

2/3/2013 Update: A more mobile friendly version of the chart: Squares Payouts . My most recent two posts covered the concept of in-game ...

This post has been in the works for several months now, and is the result of a deep dive into the NBA's  SportVU motion tracking data . ...

Phil Jackson, 1986 : "We'd try to take some air out of the ball. You see, on the ball it says something like 'inflate ...

The odds of winning a game when down by 6 with 18 seconds left are approximately 250 to 1 . Last month , I rolled out a new version of m...

Last Thursday night, the  Bulls trailed the Thunder at home by 1 point with 4.9 seconds left on the clock. The Bulls' inbou...