As regular readers of this newsletter know, my primary focus over the past year has been to champion the importance of geodesy and to prepare the geospatial ...

Editor’s note: Previous versions of the simulation were incorrectly calculating each team’s odds of reaching the conference finals and beyond. That error has been ...

Playoff probabilities are updated as the games progress, based on ESPN Analytics' live win probabilities and its NFL Football Power Index (FPI) projections. Live in-game win probabilities weigh ...

PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is BP’s proprietary system that projects player and team performance PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past ...

Player to watch for goal, shots on goal and/or power-play point: James van Riemsdyk, F, DET (at BOS; 7:30 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, TNT, NESN) -4-game point streak with 7 points (2 goals, 5 assists) and 8 ...

Our power ratings predict each team’s chances of making the playoffs, winning the division, and winning it all -- updated every week throughout the 2025 season ...

There is one week left in the 2025 NFL regular season, which means the top part of the 2026 draft order is basically set. The Las Vegas Raiders are heavy favorites to have the No. 1 pick in April. And ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, ...

The 2025-26 college football bowl season has already seen 25 games completed, in addition to four playoff matchups. But some bowl confidence pools remain open for entries or modifications as there are ...