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

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 . ...

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 ...

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

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

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...