Counterpoints: The Sports Analytics Podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review

In today's NBA, are analytics just a regular season tool? Analytics have a major place in ... more

The explosion of streaming media offers fans unlimited access to sports and entertainment.... more

Recent years have seen an explosion in the NFL passing game and emerging analytics demonst... more

Counterpoints takes on two pressing questions in the sports analytics field: the issue of ... more

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The rag-tag group of underdogs overcomes the more... more

In the NBA’s modern era of pace-and-space, small ball, and chucking away from 3, it feels ... more

A herd mentality and a lack of good data have led teams to make some poor decisions about ... more

Which teams make it to the college football playoffs isn’t as random as it sometimes seems... more

Though lacking in glitz and glamour, the tackle, guard, and center positions make up the b... more

eSports has arrived as a major player in the sports world. Games like DOTA 2 and League of... more

When NBA superstars like Steph Curry, Joel Embiid, or Kawhi Leonard are given a planned ni... more

Even as soccer has become a multibillion-dollar business, with superstar transfer fees exc... more

Almost every team’s fans can point to a signature free agent signing that fell flat. Somet... more

Eddie Robinson at Grambling. Mike Krzyzewski at Duke. Gregg Popovich with the Spurs. It’s ... more

Most Counterpoints listeners are well familiar with the sweeping changes that Moneyball br... more

It is incredibly difficult to judge individual talent in the NFL, because so much of a pla... more

Supporters of the shift believe it's a solid baseball strategy. By overloading defenders t... more

When the Patriots and the Rams take the field on Sunday, February 3, at Mercedes-Benz Stad... more

On the Formula One circuit, tenths and even hundredths of seconds can be the difference be... more

In this week’s episode, we take on a question that could lead to an existential crisis for... more

In pairing right-handed defensemen with left-handed defensemen, many NHL teams believe the... more

Does everyone benefit equally from the same amount of sleep? And how exactly does one meas... more

It’s easy to understand why winning teams would draw more fans — a great team features exc... more

Basketball IQ is one of the game’s holy analytical grails. We know it’s there, or at least... more

This is a sports analytics show for sports professionals, data junkies, and fans alike. It... more