Mirage Manager Jeff Stoneback is a betting line genius, but wrong on one point in this interview with Covers, Value Add Basketball calculates there is no way the best player in college basketball (Villanova’s Josh Hart) is worth only two points a game to Villanova.
For the first time we failed to release a preseason Value Add Basketball team together because – well we were distracted by number crunching on a Presidential Election. However, today we at least put out “pre-conference play” All-Conference and All-American teams.
Josh Hart nudges out Kansas’ Frank Mason and Duke’s Luke Kennard as the best major college player in America according to Value Add Basketball.
Virginia rallied to beat Ohio State, thereby holding off Kentucky for the top spot in Value Add by a score of 50.79 to 49.53.
UNC debuts at No. 1 in the Breitbart Sports college basketball rankings, but bettors should look to Utah for the best chance at a big payout. Utah is unranked in the coaches’ and sports writers’ polls, but Value Add Basketball calculates the 6-foot-10 December transfer David Collette will make them up to eight points a game better to project as the 12th best team in the country.
Two days after Barack Obama’s reelection, ESPN compared me to Nate Silver due to Value Add Basketball. And after the next presidential election consumed me, Breitbart Sports unveils v4.0 and the top 10 players in the early going.
Donald Trump is just one state short of the presidency, according to the 6 pm Thursday evening projection by Nate Silver, the left’s favorite polling prognosticator.
The Chicago Cubs hope to win their first best-of-seven World Series in over a century a week before a best-of-nine series decides control of the U.S. Senate, and surprisingly the average of the most recent poll in those nine races shows Republican chances improving.
The latest USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times tracking poll puts Republican nominee Donald Trump up nearly 7 points over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as of Sunday morning. He also hit an all-time high of 20.1% among black voters.
Donald Trump gets a crucial two-point bounce when third-party presidential candidates combine for more than 10 percent in multiple polls, according to a Breitbart News analysis.
Friday night, the Houston Astros will put the best baseball trio in 15 years on the field in the battle for Texas against the Rangers.
If a “guilt vote” propelled President Obama to two election wins, will Donald Trump be elected with a “silent vote” because the national media makes it too embarrassing to tell a pollster you are supporting Trump?
In recent decades, 2004 was the only year in which practicing Catholics faced a tough choice in a Presidential election. This year it is much again clear despite the fact that the threat of a hostile IRS forces Catholic pastors to try to “balance” reasons to vote for each side from the pulpit.
The Houston Astros, the only team with three of the top 11 players in MLB, appeared to get knocked off the “wild card” island with the worst start to a game in the history of baseball — only to recover to pound the Baltimore Orioles 31-8 the rest of the weekend to pull within 4 ½ games of the Orioles, Mariners, Royals, Tigers and Yankees for the last playoff spot.
Don’t be intimidated by statistical experts and contradictory polls. The table below shows you how to use any swing-state poll to check if Donald Trump is on track to clear the nation’s 270-vote electoral bar in his race to become President.
Political pundits say this campaign is like no other — but we have seen this before.
Thursday battleground state polls confirmed national polls showing a steep drop for Donald Trump after projecting as a favorite as recently as Saturday by Nate Silver, who in 2012 only briefly after the first debate gave Mitt Romney even a 41 percent chance of winning.
A net total of 14.8 million viewers of Donald Trump’s convention speech are more likely to vote for him, based on a combination of the just-released TV ratings and the viewer poll that CNN tried to bury.
Battleground polls released in July show voters are moving toward Donald Trump. In three battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania — Trump gained between three and six points, and in Iowa he went from a double-digit deficit to a lead.
Kevin Durant recently announced his departure from Oklahoma City to help bring Golden State the title that slipped away. If he could instead reunite with the other Texas Longhorns in the NBA, they could challenge UCLA and Kentucky alums for
After reportedly picking up Dwyane Wade on Wednesday, the Chicago Bulls project to improve from 42-40 to 57-25 – enough to go from missing the playoffs to tying the Cleveland Cavaliers atop the East.
After threatening an opposing player’s ability to have children for the third time, Draymond Green is now banned from his home arena for the potential NBA championship win and celebration.
A poll shows that Republican Governor Pat McCrory has surged 9 points since he stood up against President Barack Obama’s order to allow transgenders into girls’ restrooms, and he has now converted a 10-point deficit into a 5-point lead in his 2016 reelection campaign against Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democrat.
From May 6-9, Public Policy Polling compared Donald Trump to hemorrhoids, root canals, lice, traffic jams, and cockroaches. Not surprising it was the one poll showing Hillary Clinton still ahead.
When I was turning out faith-based voters for George W. Bush in 2000, John McCain refused to endorse or even meet with Bush for two months after losing the nomination. The idea that Speaker Paul Ryan not endorsing Donald Trump on the spot, a week before they meet, hurts Trump’s campaign is ridiculous.
On March 9, this Breitbart story projected Donald Trump would have 1,309 first ballot delegates to take the nomination. After the Indiana results Tuesday, Fox News belatedly projected that Trump would get 1,285 delegates. Analyst Bill Hemmer added “that might
LGBT advocates cannot have it both ways, claiming that anyone who worries about a man following a girl into a public restroom should be ridiculed or fired but contradicting themselves by also claiming no man should be stopped from entering a public restroom because there should be no women’s rooms.
Two years after ESPN declared the Big East dead with a one-hour and 44-minute documentary, Kris Jenkins took just a second to resurrect it with a national title.
The “Democracy Spring” march from Philadelphia to Capitol Hill next week to protest big-money special interests buying our government has much in common with the conservative protest in Miami to stop a private recount of presidential ballots in 2000.
Just months after Breitbart Sports was criticized for “pretending” the Big East was almost an elite conference, Villanova improved the conference to 8-4 in the tournament — behind only the ACC (18-5) and doing it by beating a team from the only other conference with a winning record (Big 12) by a record margin 95-51.
Stephen Curry and the Warriors are vulnerable, after all, as the soon-to-be MVP turned the ball over nine times and missed a last-second three to end their record 54-game home win streak.
Value Add indicates the Villanova “no stars” are the only team with four Top 200 players as they try to overcome Player of the Year Buddy Hield (Oklahoma) and then the best player in the tournament (UNC’s Brice Johnson) or the surprising Orangemen of Syracuse to give the Big East its first title in just its third year since realignment.
Nate Silver and I had two of the only brackets with Oklahoma winning today, as they kick off the “Best Non-ACC Elite 8” against Oregon shortly after 6 p.m. Eastern. Kansas plays Villanova after that game. Then the second “ACC Tournament” continues Sunday with North Carolina vs. Notre Dame and Syracuse vs. Virginia and top 10 Value Add player Malcolm Brogdon.
John Pudner outlines the elite eight teams who will advance from the Sweet Sixteen.
President Obama and his stat guru Nate Silver can only hope for Hillary Clinton’s coin flip luck to save the last Barack-etology. The Breitbart Sports All-American bracket’s domination means Obama would need to be correct on all nine of the remaining games on which the two disagree.
In February Thomas Walkup passed Buddy Hield as the most valuable player in the country according to Value Add Basketball. Friday he scored 33 points to lead Stephen F. Austin’s upset of West Virginia to make the Breitbart All-American bracket 26-6 and in the 99th percentile according to ESPN’s calculations.
If you went with the better seed in all 16 games Thursday you are now 9-7. If you went with the teams with the most Breitbart All-Americans and All-Conference players you are 15-1.
We produced the bracket for all 63 picks based on looking at the analytics and then going with our gut. Here is a recap of those “gut” picks, and seven other options to let you go with our pure analytic choice, which team is hottest, most healthy, has the most NBA talent, best experienced point guard or the most All-Americans. Or you can just go with the lowest seed every time.
Some great student-athletes will miss March Madness due to the Selection Committee or in other cases from unkind rims to sex and recruiting scandals to a questionable accusation of an assault.
Forcing Indiana to play Kentucky in the second round punishes Indiana, and the winner getting UNC is even worse.
