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Does experience actually matter?

By Bruce Feldman

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

How important is experience? According to the blog Blatant Homerism, it's actually pretty overrated when it comes to preseason predictions: "I drilled down to the top 10 percent of teams by winning percentage in the six-year period in an effort to see if winning teams had more experience. Just like the general population, nothing really stands out among the best teams, as the correlation of returning starters to winning percentage is 0.01. "Notably, the top 10 percent of BCS teams in terms of ...

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