The Analyst

“Catch ‘em if you can” is more a wish when it comes to those setting baseball’s stolen base records.That Major League Baseball increase...

In 1980, it was George Brett chasing the highest batting average in an MLB season.In 1994, it was Tony Gwynn tormenting pitchers. Six y...

Baseball once had a reputation for being too long, but it’s no longer the case with MLB speeding up the action beginning in 2023. As part o...

Stat, Viz, Quiz is the Opta Analyst football newsletter. This week’s edition looks at Lee Carsley’s England legacy, foul numbers, and the P...

The fantasy football playoffs are approaching but there are still players on the waiver wire who can improve your roster. Here are our sugg...

A diverse, talented group of 13 FCS college football players are finalists for the 2024 FedEx Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete Award, now in...

Norwich City’s form may have suffered after a bright start to the 2024-25 Championship season, but Borja Sainz remains on course for campai...

If you thought choosing the HBCU Players of the Week would be easier after a hotly contested Week 1, you were wrong.As we settle into t...

Nobody likes blowouts. Well, that’s not true. Fans of the winning team like blowouts. Fantasy managers can get behind a blowout. But ca...

With LeBron James breaking the 40,000-point mark for career points in NBA regular seasons, we thought it was time to take a look at tho...

It didn’t happen all at once, but eventually, several analytical minds realized something that was so staggering it changed the game of bas...

MLB’s longest postseason droughts can become folk tales.Fans will recount stories of heroes and villains, miracles and curses, hope and...

The second full round of fixtures in this year’s Autumn Nations Series saw a mix of tight clashes and resounding victories – we take a look...

Each week, throughout the college football season, alumni, fans, media and the teams themselves look to the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll t...

Manchester City are about as close to a crisis as they have ever been under Pep Guardiola. But how bad are things really, and what do they...

Ahead of the return of the Premier League, we use the Opta supercomputer to assess the likelihood of teams in the danger zone being relegat...

Opta Analyst’s FCS football coverage includes weekly national player and team honors throughout the regular season and will lead toward the...

Stats Perform is bringing a greater spotlight to athletes, students and stories at Historically Black Colleges and Universities through a p...

A diverse, talented group of 13 FCS college football players are finalists for the 2024 FedEx Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete Award, now in...

Before South Dakota State seeks a national title three-peat in the 2024 season, our FCS playoff bracket predictions provide a crystal ball...

One by one, teams are becoming FCS conference champs and clinching postseason bids.The first teams are noted below on lists that will k...

Opta Analyst’s FCS coverage includes the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll, which is voted on by a national panel of 56 voters each Monday. Her...

Not surprisingly, many of the best players in history are a big part of the all-time NBA records, from Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points...

We say this every year, but this offseason could be a lot of fun.Fingers crossed.The free-agent market has some big names, no doubt...

In our Week 11 fantasy football start ’em and sit ’em, we let the data give another perspective that likely varies from the expert consensu...