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 ...

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 ...

Analysts have raised their expectations of a recession in America's near future. A prediction model from the global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase, analyzed by Bloomberg, suggests that the ...