The Hot Hand in Sports

Analyzing Sports Streakiness with Texas Tech Professor Alan Reifman........................................................................(See twitter.com/alanreifman for more frequent postings)...................................................................................

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

ESPN.com reports on "the greatest streak in the history of college varsity sports; you've never heard of it."
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  • Retrosheet
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  • Sixteen Wins
  • Sports-Reference Blog
  • Stat Muse
  • Tom Tango
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  • Jay Koehler
  • Robin Lock
  • Joshua Miller
  • Dean Oliver
  • Christopher Rump
  • Adam Sanjurjo
  • Gary Smith
  • Hal Stern
  • Robert Wardrop
  • Chris Wetzel

Citations of the Hot Hand Website/Book

  • APA Monitor Website of the Month (April 2002)
  • Bill James Article
  • Book: A Mathematician at the Ballpark
  • Book: The Mind of Bill James
  • Boston Globe
  • Cigar Aficionado
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Connecticut Post (January 2010)
  • ESPN.com True Hoop blog
  • Math Trek
  • NPR (May 2005, Audio)
  • NPR (September 2005, Audio)
  • NPR (May 2010, Audio)
  • New York Times
  • Rob Neyer (ESPN.com)
  • SB Nation
  • So. California Public Radio
  • Sports Illustrated On Campus
  • Wall Street Journal (Online)
  • Wired Magazine (Online)
  • Wisconsin Engineer

Other Streakiness-Related Analyses and References

  • Autistic Student "JMac" Keeps Hitting Threes
  • Baseball Individual-Performance Streaks (Wikipedia)
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  • Bleacher Report's "50 of the Greatest Streaks in Sports History"
  • ESPN.com's Top Individual Streaks (May 2005)
  • ESPN.com's Top Team Streaks (2001)
  • "Fooled By Randomness" (Book)
  • Hot Hand in NFL Passing? (Peyton Manning)
  • "How Researchers Discovered the Basketball 'Hot Hand'"
  • "Inside the Book" Streaks Page
  • London Review of Books
  • "Marketplace" radio show (Audio)
  • NBA 2005-06 Hot Hand Stats
  • Streakiness of Stock Market
  • Tiger Woods's Grand Slam Chances (2002)

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