Probability models that once belonged to high-stakes poker have become a backbone for NHL betting analytics. It’s no longer just “feeling lucky.” Frameworks honed over decades of card play have found ...

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...

Football has often been described as a game won in the trenches. For years, however, quantifying the performance of individual blockers and pass rushers remained a challenge. Traditional statistics ...

Mathematics has always stood quietly behind great changes, and the rise of AI is no different. As machines learn through ...