"We do everything in the new school, if you would call it, " said Butler coach Brad Stevens, a 36-year-old devotee of advanced statistics.

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No team has given up fewer points per possession than Louisville since 2003, when kenpom.com, the advanced basketball statistics website, started tracking defensive efficiency.

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Upon reviewing numerous basic and advanced pitching statistics from 2012 and 2011, it seems quite clear that Verlander and Kershaw are among a short list of elite pitchers in the game.

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The inhalation is the most severe, in the past, thought to have 90% fatality, although in our cases here in this country, we've shown it to be 40% fatality, and that's more or less because of the advanced antibiotic therapy, and the ICU support that is much more advanced than it was when the statistics were first out.

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In fact, there are players online who refuse to play one format or the other, and fortunately STCO provides dynamic statistics for both Basic and Advanced play.

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They provide FREE daily advice emails about waivers, trades, players, and other recommendations using advanced data analytics and modeling, all based on real world statistics to help your team win.

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You would think even those subjects with advanced degrees in other fields would have enough exposure to math and statistics to sniff out the bogus equation.

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Advanced university degree (Mastersor equivalent) in economics, education, development studies, statistics or demography.

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