The model controls for offensive players. It can't exactly control for who is guarding who, because I don't know the locations of every player on the court (although that data now exists) but it will pick up on a particular defensive player always facing the best offensive players. Read more

This paper comes just two months before Ouimet wins the US Open as an amateur and golf in the US is changed forever. Read more

I love that a story about a player getting SHOT after hitting a homerun wasn't big enough news to displace, well, anything above the fold.

I know this is crazy, but this beautifully crafted homage to NBA history only makes me think (again) about how absolutely ridiculous it is that the franchise in Utah is named the Jazz. BIGO, Full Disclosure - I am o.k. with Pluralism, but do not practice it because my wife just thinks I want a #2 because there… Read more

Are you guys drinking beer and watching a screener of The Neighbors while you make Reuben do all the hard math stuff? Read more

Ha! Well, I'm over 30, and went to Catholic school... So thanks for the trip down memory lane. These are awesome! Read more

An overlay of the MLB map and the NBA map would reveal a not insignificant amount of people who root for the Celtics and the Yankees. I cannot imagine a more insufferable group of human beings. Read more

Our man came through!

"So yes, 'intelligent' is used more often for white players than for blacks, but only at the 3 sigma level — barely statistically significant." lol Read more

I thought of this as well. Intelligence is typically used in some form or another to describe QBs and the great majority of QBs are white. I believe that QBs, however, are but a fraction of the prospects and therefore too small to skew the results. Simply, it would have to be true that white players are mostly QBs so… Read more

There's no way to be sure, but I'm guessing almost all of the uses of worker come after hard.

This shit is juked to high heaven and you have people here quibbling about the word "deceptive" and yelling "click-bait". Read more

Listen, I'm all about trashing Gawker Media bloggers for sloppy reporting, but I think this article delivers what it promises. The Seahawks are cherry picking statistics that make them look good to agents of undrafted players, while choosing not to highlight that those statistics weren't true prior to last year and… Read more

The problem with this critique is that it relies on the idea that different interpretations of the question are going to be racially skewed, without any compelling reason to believe that's true. Read more

"Misleading" maybe would have been better, but I'll stand by deceptive, which I don't think implies that the Seahawks are straight-up lying (which they aren't). Read more

Some thoughts: Read more

Gah, this again. Does: Read more