Weekly Sports Analytics News Roundup – May 17, 2016

Football: Football Outsiders posts Snap-Weighted Age: 2015 NFL Rosters.

College Football: FootballStudyHall asks Would a Big 12 championship game be a mistake? Analytics on CFB Playoff odds. The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective says Presence of Sororities, High SAT Scores increase College Football attendance.

Baseball: FanGraphs says The Red Sox Offense Has Been Better Than the 1927 Yankees. FiveThirtyEight lists The Best Pitchers Of All Time. Baseball Prospectus on Life at the Margins: Swing, Batta Batta. The Hardball Times on The Physics of Ballpark Fare. BeyondTheBoxScore Field tests the motusTHROW. The Hardball Times on How Often Your Team Should Win The World Series. Tom Tango on Logic over regression: Linear Weights by Batter.

Basketball: FiveThirtyEight writes that Rest Won’t Help The Cavs — And They Won’t Need Any Help To Beat The Raptors. Nylon Calculus Revisits Preseason Highly Plausible Projections. FiveThirtyEight says The 76ers Can Tank All They Want, But They Still Need Lottery Luck. FiveThirtyEight says The Thunder’s Big Men Could Stop The Warriors’ Lineups Of Death.

Soccer: American Soccer Analysis on Life After Kamara: The Crew and Higuain.

Your Moment of R: BaseballWithR posts Graphing Pitch Count Effects II.