Advanced numbers are rarely kind to aging superstars, but this season they have been downright brutal for LeBron James on the ...

New York goalie Igor Shesterkin, who turned 30 years old on Dec. 30, leads the NHL in starts with greater than a .900 save ...

Five years ago quarterbacks around the league threw for an average of 240.2 yards per game. Now that has plummeted to 212.3 ...

Nebraska may have been the first school to hire a person devoted solely to sports analytics, but it is not alone in college football using advanced metrics. There’s more data available than ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The full, nine-inning Playbook was originally published during the spring of 2020. It has been updated for 2021 where applicable.) Baseball is such a different game today than it was when rotisserie ...

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, ...