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Defensive rating or defensive efficiency is a statistic used in basketball to measure an individual player's efficiency at preventing the other team from scoring points. It was created by author and statistician Dean Oliver. [1] Oliver introduced the defensive rating statistic in his 2004 book, Basketball on Paper. [2]
Computer rating systems can tend toward objectivity, without specific player, team, regional, or style bias. Ken Massey writes that an advantage of computer rating systems is that they can "objectively track all" 351 college basketball teams, while human polls "have limited value". [2] Computer ratings are verifiable and repeatable, and are ...
Television ratings for the College Football Playoff semifinals were down about 17 percent in the first season of the expanded 12-team format. Taking place later in January than under the previous ...
Since 1999, 55 Cuban football players have defected to the United States in an attempt to further their professional career or improve their standard of living. Under the old wet feet, dry feet policy in the U.S., any Cuban player who set foot in the country was entitled to become a U.S. resident.
Sep. 20—The Ohio High School Athletic Association released the official weekly football computer ratings Tuesday. The computer ratings are released every Tuesday beginning in the fifth week of ...
The Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears, New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins do not have an Ohio State player on their Madden 25 roster at the game's release.
He was the first Soviet player to defect to play in the NHL. Béla Károlyi and his wife Márta Károlyi, Romanian gymnastics coaches (of Nadia Comăneci and Mary Lou Retton among others), who defected to the United States in 1981. Osvaldo Alonso, Cuban soccer player, who defected to the United States in 2007.
Football Outsiders (FO) was a website started in July 2003 which focused on advanced statistical analysis of the National Football League (NFL). The site was run by a staff of regular writers, who produced a series of weekly columns using both the site's in-house statistics and their personal analyses of NFL games.