Then imagine them side-by-side, to provide even more insight via juxtaposition. Read more
I'm here. I like throwing baseballs. Read more
Ha, yeah, the one thing that rainbow-cake comment section lacks is that one guy who feels the need to let everybody know that he couldn't be bothered to read the whole article. Read more
Spain has certainly had two bad matches. Read more
What I remember was my brother getting sick and puking all over my parent's brand new white carpet. My mom scrubbed and scrubbed that thing all night. It mostly looked ok but they ended up putting a chair over that spot in the end. Read more
Ghana: Ghana feels most aggrieved that the side that did almost all of the attacking ending up without a single point. Read more
Algeria is the most extreme one - over half (?) the team was born in France. Turkey, if they'd qualified, would be up there too, with a good percentage of the team born in Germany. Read more
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It is a great premise, although I would imagine harder today to analyze with the influx of Euro players and many more teams than the 80's but only a slightly larger talent pool. Read more
I can't speak to their methodology, but when running reports like this it's usually an aggregate of multiple simulations. So while there will always be outliers (i.e. high-scoring games), when they run the multiple tests, they tend to average out to the "traditional" low-scoring matches. Read more
Actually, I went to the University of Delaware and have family in Newark, DE, the thing to do if you are buying a lot of booze is go to State Line liquor store in Elkton, Maryland. There's nothing else to do except drink. Read more