Nestled somewhere in the cozy confines of Cambridge, Massachusetts is a little old college that you may have heard about. Harvard is known for producing things like U.S. presidents, Nobel Prize winners, and Supreme Court Justices. And in the football world, it has produced NFL players like Matt Birk and Ryan Fitzpatrick. Now we can add NFL team projections to that list.
The esteemed folks at Harvard - actually some guy named Kurt Bullard, who designed a prediction model for the 2015 NFL season – posted a study on the Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective (HSAC) webpage this week, using a formula that, based on all kinds of really smart-sounding scientific mumbo jumbo, has the Dolphins going to the Super Bowl this season.