In last year’s contest against Dartmouth, senior captain and defensive tackle Mike Hinton, then a junior and defensive end, saw an opportunity late in the fourth quarter to seal the game.

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Football comes into this year’s campaign looking to build on last year’s spectacular 8-2 season. Out of the 19 seniors, three captains—Mike Hinton, Landon Baty, and Markham Paukune—sat down with Spectator to discuss their memories and motivations going into the season.

Men’s basketball suffered a heartbreaking loss in its home opener Monday night, as Quinnipiac’s Rich Kelly drove to the basket and scored a go-ahead layup with four seconds remaining, bring the Bobcats to an 89-87 victory.

After football’s recent 18-8 win against Cornell on Saturday, it sits just one game behind Yale, needing luck to capture its second-ever Ancient Eight crown.

In baseball, wRAA (weighted Runs Above Average) measures the number of runs a player contributes to his team relative to a league average player. Spectator’s algorithm assigns a weight to each offensive event based on the number of runs that event is expected to produce. So, while hitting a single with no men on base does not score a run, that single will statistically return an expected fraction of a run. That value, and the expected point values of every offensive event, become weights in the wRAA formula into which player data are fed.