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Welcome to Year 7 of the TrueHoop Stat Geek Smackdown.

BOSTON -- Five years ago, San Francisco 49ers fans weary of losing might have cringed seeing team executive Paraag Marathe representing them on a "Revenge of the Nerds" panel put on by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Marathe himself might h...

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The Atlanta Falcons are playing the Seattle Seahawks in the divisional round of the NFC playoffs on Sunday. Vegas has the Falcons favored by 2.5, but you get +3 for just being the home team, which essentially means Vegas has no clue what it thinks. ...

Here are the most interesting stories Friday in the AFC East: Statistician Nate Silver predicts the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will play in the Super Bowl. Morning take: This is an interesting prediction that is out of the norm....

Nate Silver got exactly two things wrong about the 2012 election: the outcome of Senate elections in North Dakota and Minnesota. Everything else about the election fell before the might of Silver's analysis on his FiveThirtyEight blog -- he correctly...

Statistician Nate Silver, famed prognosticator of political elections, baseball games and football rankings, explained on "First Take" why he's predicting a Patriots-Seahawks Super Bowl. "This is the Football Outsiders system, so I didn't work on ...

Silver worked for Baseball Prospectus from 2003-08. Welcome to SportsNation! On Thursday, author, blogger, leading statistical analyst and self proclaimed "sports/politics/food geek" Nate Silver stops by to chat about nearly anything on your mind....

The past 12 months were so surprising that Nate Silver accurately predicted only 47 percent of what actually happened. Peyton Manning is quarterbacking the Denver Broncos while Northern Illinois is heading to a BCS bowl. A man without legs ran in...

It was the year a man became very famous for possessing an unshakable belief in math and basic reasoning skills. This probably says less about Nate Silver and more about the small armies of Silver skeptics, gut-driven intuitionists uninterested in pa...

Nate Silver explains how his use of analytics in sports influenced his study of political trends and how the use of sports analytics has changed the way the games are played....

In ESPN The Magazine, Nate Silver, oracle of sports and politics, tells Peter Keating about the difference between predicting the MLB MVP and the winner of a presidential election.

Nate Silver on the B.S. Report suggesting kids should learn math by doing fun stuff like playing fantasy sports. The Hawks' defense is wonderful and here's why. Celtics, meet the 3-point line. Hornets247 has a cool new design, and mad insight i...

Nate Silver talks to Bill Simmons about how politics compares to sports, the criticism he received this year, and how he spent Election Day. To listen to this podcast, you can download it on iTunes here or go to the ESPN.com PodCenter here....

Post-"Moneyball" sports have become a blizzard of numbers, and every snowflake or at-bat can be discernible as an individual event, but also blinding in the aggregate. This can be discouraging stuff to press box traditionalists.