Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. On Monday, FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, with a warrant to reportedly investigate whether he had ...

Wins above replacement projections are based on a combination of regular-season and playoff performances and are scaled to an 82-game regular season. The similarity score is an index measuring how ...

Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those ...

President Biden’s American Rescue Plan is overwhelmingly popular: Seventy percent of adults said they were in favor of the legislation, compared to just 28 percent who opposed the bill, according to a ...

Our projection system identifies similar players throughout NBA history and uses them to develop a probabilistic forecast of what a current NBA player’s future might look like.

Our 2020 presidential forecast is final and no longer updating. You can keep making selections here to see how the results you pick would change our pre-election forecast.

It’s easy to look around right now and conclude that popular public opinion has turned against scientists. Twitter hashtags have urged the president to fire Anthony Fauci. A widely shared video ...

In this edition of COVID Mysteries, senior science writer Maggie Koerth explores some hypotheses for why more men than women are dying from the novel coronavirus.

*“Worst case,” “median” and “best case” picks represent the player’s 5th, 50th and 95th percentile picks in ESPN’s draft projection model. Source: ESPN Stats & Information Group There are many ...

When and if Major League Baseball returns in 2020, the sport faces a particular challenge in restarting from the suspension of play caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. All players will require something ...