I have been present at several flee-worthy events. It is every bit as euphoric as you might imagine. The pinnacle was an Atlanta-area high school basketball game in which two opposing stars took "turns" one-upping the other with insane in-game dunks. The final was of the fast break… Read more
The only way to solve this is by having a playoff. Read more
I'm curious if "experience" (as measured by age) is the right variable to measure with respect to this effect. Could it be "familiarity" — as in it's a combination of stability of the roster and the length of time the players stay in school? (Some teams of seniors are full of transfer students who are relevantly new… Read more
A speeding ticket? Read more
If Pop Chart Lab really wanted to make money off these, they'd sell the Napa map for twice as much as the nearly identical Sonoma map. Read more
Great work! Nice data visualization ... and I can really appreciate all the background research that was required. (I did a much smaller-scale project a while ago, looking at cinematic depictions of conflicts over water. I didn't realize until then just how many movies have been made, in only about a century.) If I… Read more
I say this with all the pent up frustration that comes from being a lifelong Jets fan: I hate being a lifelong Jets fan. Read more
Under monster attacks: Read more
Houston was also attacked in Independence Day. Read more
not to mention it doesn't even have a finished bracket. Read more
Interesting and all, but I'd really like to see the number of coffee joints that are closest, i.e. saturation. For example, here in the southern part of Boston, we have probably 10 Dunkies before you get a Starbucks around my place. It's one thing to have a slight lead, it's another to be so ridiculously stocked. Read more
Those designations don't go back as far as 1950, at least not on Pro Football Reference.
That's piss-poor technique for securing the football! I give him a month before concussions end his career if he doesn't fix that facemask! Read more
My guess is it has to with how computers represent floating point numbers. Often times, simple decimals aren't able to be represented cleanly , so something like .680 can get turned into .679999999999999999. Then at some point it gets truncated to 67.9% rather than rounded up. Seems stupid, but much more common… Read more