These are the statistics that don't jump off the page after a quick scan of the boxscore. Beyond goals and assists, find out which players are racking up big numbers when it comes to chance creation ...

Welcome back to SCREENSHOTS, a weekly report from the intersection of sports, media, and the Internet. To celebrate Opening Day, I’m proposing a new stat for baseball’s bookkeepers. Numbers, if you ...

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (24) puts up a shot against Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah (13), forward Luol Deng (9), guard Ronnie Brewer (11) and forward Taj Gibson as time expires in the ...

As was mentioned in our preview of advanced hitting stats, we’re really excited about the addition of advanced stats for Yahoo Fantasy Baseball. And advanced metrics are especially valuable for ...

Statistics tells stories. Sometimes people use statistics to tell a story they’ve already written, and sometimes people use statistics to disprove someone else’s story. In fantasy baseball, we use ...

Helping as many as possible to better understand the meanings behind the statistics and models that make up advanced hockey stat analysis is essential when it comes to expanding the conversations ...

Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (Oct. 11, 2016), we bring you another edition of “Stat School.” That usually means that Statman, ...

Today’s column looks at a wide variety of stats and how they correlate to fantasy values. Is usage rate a useful metric for explaining or predicting fantasy production in 8-cat and 9-cat leagues? How ...

Defense doesn't matter in Fantasy leagues. Sure, there are some leagues that count errors, but they are fairly rare. For the most part, an owner doesn't care about owning a terrible defensive player ...

The Habs’ powerplay is one of the club’s major strengths this season. The Habs have a 25% man-advantage efficiency rate this ...

Work with real data. Clean data, deal with missing data values, and appreciate the complexities of handling real-world data. With an advanced degree in statistics or applied statistics, you’ll be ...