Past Articles in Analysis

  1. Pro Flight Finale: Women’s 7 Stars Line

    The Pro Flight Finale hosted many of Ultimate’s most talented women, setting versatile offenders against harassing defenders.

  2. Readers React To The New Club Championships Format

    At 2 PM Eastern yesterday, USA Ultimate announced bold new changes to the Club Championships tournament format.

  3. Pro Flight Finale Preview (Women’s): Possibilities Of Parity Put To The Test

    The much anticipated weekend of the Pro Flight Finale is finally upon us.

  4. Considering The Horizontal Stack: Are You Sure It’s Right For Your Team?

    The start of the college season is just around the corner and that means it’s time for a team meeting.

  5. Goals And Assists? Who Cares: Why You Should Take A Team Approach To Statistics

    I originally wrote this statistics primer for was introducing the sabermetric approach, of statistically understanding baseball, to the masses.

  6. Late Season Club Power Rankings

    Now just a week and half out from the Pro Flight Finale, the club regular season is humming along with some wild upsets and exciting…

  7. The Perils Of Plus-Minus

    The one statistic that teams ask me to help them with the most is plus-minus.

  8. Quantifying Player Value: Introducing ‘Expected Contribution’ And Ranking The 2013 NexGen Team

    No one in Ultimate seriously believes simple statistics like goals, assists, or blocks fairly measure a player’s overall worth. But our new 'expected contribution' statistic - which summarizes each player’s involvement in one overall number -- is a first serious attempt to do exactly this.

  9. An Open Letter To WFDF: It’s Time For Observers

    Dear President Rauch, Executive Director Bernardi, WFDF Board Members, and WFDF Member Nations,

  10. Throw The Junk: How The U23 Women Won Gold

    Though the United States went undefeated at the U23 World Ultimate Championships, the journey down the road paved of gold was no small task.

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