Nick Lopez

Harvard 2025

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

@brentsmith1024 @Harvard So exciting!! 🚀🚀

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

@brentsmith1024 So insanely impressive!

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

Last semester, I worked with @ElliotKChin on a project applying counterfactual regret minimization to poker and testing the results against a genuine user pool. We created our solver and game entirely from scratch. Read and play against our bot here: https://t.co/wm584HPIFv

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

So cool to have HSAC featured in @business today! Incredible experience to be a part of this article coming to fruition

[Harvard Undergraduate Sports Analysis Collective @HUSACOfficial]

HSAC featured in @AdamMinter's Bloomberg opinion this morning. Check it out!

"'Teams that are top-heavy tend to have worse winning percentages,' explains @meron_ben , a recently graduated member of HSAC who contributed to the analysis."

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

A unique analysis on the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs! I hope you enjoy!

[Harvard Undergraduate Sports Analysis Collective @HUSACOfficial]

Looking back at the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, @nicklopez86 and Victor Zeidenfeld discuss just how unique the Florida Panthers’ playoff success was in HSAC’s latest article: https://t.co/ENpc5aIdBf

[Harvard Undergraduate Sports Analysis Collective @HUSACOfficial]

What part of a college basketball game is most exciting? @ElliotKChin tackles this question and more in his latest article for the HSAC blog: https://t.co/QJpVJnXEl9

[Harvard Undergraduate Sports Analysis Collective @HUSACOfficial]

Heading into week 2 @Wimbledon, we revisit @david_arkow article predicting how many career Slams @DjokerNole will end up with. Djokovic has won the first two this year, 23 all-time, and 7 Wimbledons. Who is your pick to win?

https://t.co/23i5hqN4o2.

[Tampa Bay Lightning @TBLightning]

11 seasons. Two Stanley Cups. Countless memories.

Thanks for everything you've brought to our organization and our city, Alex. 💙

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

@ElliotKChin Of course! So glad to be a part of it!

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

A great piece by @ElliotKChin on streakiness in the NBA!

[Elliot Chin @ElliotKChin]

Recently, in the wake of the Celtics' nailbiting 3-0 comeback attempt, I wrote a piece for @Harvard_Sports about what it means to be "streaky" in the NBA. I found that the Celtics were pretty streaky this season, so perhaps their ECF performance shouldn't come as a surprise.

[Harvard Undergraduate Sports Analysis Collective @HUSACOfficial]

Remembering Carl Morris, beloved HSAC founding advisor.

https://t.co/GIP7TwZAGC

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

@ElliotKChin Interesting! The same holds for NHL Playoffs as well, mostly for the same reasons but with the added factor of penalties being called at much lower rates in Game 7s.

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

@ElliotKChin @Harvard_Sports @EvelynTjoa Now all that stands in your way is Denny Ryan

[Harvard Undergraduate Sports Analysis Collective @HUSACOfficial]

Ready for the #MarchMadness to kick off tonight? Check out our most recent article giving a rundown of the 68 teams competing for it all!

From @EvelynTjoa and Matthew Sheridan, "HSAC's 68 Facts: March Madness 2023"
https://t.co/eADOOAftdC

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

Trey Mancini: World Champion 🏆

[ESPN @espn]

In 2020, Trey Mancini was diagnosed with cancer.

In 2022, he became a World Series Champion 🏆

#TheresNoPlaceLikeSports

[Houston Astros @astros]

TREY MANCINI. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!

[Jon Morosi @jonmorosi]

. @TreyMancini, cancer survivor, inspiration, Game 3 star: “There were times I thought I wasn’t going to live very long . . . To be playing in a postseason — like I dreamed as a kid — is pretty incredible. There is life after cancer and treatment.” @MLB

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

I had a great time working on this with everyone! A deep insight into big deals in the modern NFL and the distribution of teams’ salary caps vs. performance

[Harvard Undergraduate Sports Analysis Collective @HUSACOfficial]

Do big deals really make NFL teams better? Even before Russel, the stats supporting superstar contracts rarely justify the costs.

Check out our newest article, introducing a new statistic - NFL-HHI - that measures cap concentration in NFL teams. https://t.co/sc2tm9B0p7

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

@JackTwyford_863 @ElliotKChin @Giants Can’t disagree with that one!

[Nick Lopez @nicklopez86]

An incredible experience working on this with @ElliotKChin! Sadly, I don’t think there’s a permutation with the @Giants on top!

[Harvard Undergraduate Sports Analysis Collective @HUSACOfficial]

Who's the best in the NFL? You decide.

Read our newest article, by
@nick_lopez86 and @ElliotKChin, and try out our customizable, linear-algebra based #NFL team ranking model.

Who does your model have on top? If it's another team, comment down below!

https://t.co/2zBlG79v3V