Harvard University is known for a lot of things: northeastern elitists, Facebook, beating Yale in football. But one thing the school is not known for is predicting the NFL.
Miami Dolphins fans are hoping the school is good at that too.
Kurt Bullard of Harvard Sports Analysis Collective created a formula to predict the Dolphins may be the team to beat in the AFC.
Bullard used Pro Football Reference’s approximate value statistic as the backbone of his findings. As he explains:
“The method that I came up with uses Pro Football Reference’s Approximate Value statistic, the site’s best measure of trying to tease out individual talent.