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Then imagine them side-by-side, to provide even more insight via juxtaposition. Read more

The Guardian's interactive allows you to roll over each individual entry in the bar graph to reveal each individual player and his nationality. Very cool. Read more

I assume "Michael Bradley not playing poorly" is factored into this equation... 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

While I have filed many complaints with the FCC — both about Deadspin and not — I would never recommend anyone hire Dickey. 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

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

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