Football has often been described as a game won in the trenches. For years, however, quantifying the performance of individual blockers and pass rushers remained a challenge. Traditional statistics ...

Probability models that once belonged to high-stakes poker have become a backbone for NHL betting analytics. It’s no longer just “feeling lucky.” Frameworks honed over decades of card play have found ...

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...

Analysts have raised their expectations of a recession in America's near future. A prediction model from the global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase, analyzed by Bloomberg, suggests that the ...