By Andrew Mooney A couple weeks ago, IĀ discussed the implicationsĀ of one of the NFLās recent rule changes, namely the movement of kickoffs from the 30-yard line to the 35. Though we donāt have quite as much evidence for it...
Archive - November 2012
Yesterday, Aaron Schatz issued a challenge to his readership to prove the existence of a ātrap gameā or a āletdown gameā. Both terms are thrown around in the media for almost every sport all the time, but I have not seen...
It is the week of Thanksgiving, which means that we are in the midst of Rivalry Game season for college football. Of course, the most important game was played last Saturday, but I am given to understand that several other...
By Harry Chiel Every so often, a playoff series in the NHL, MLB, or NBA will be fought between a team that has just come off of a sweep and a team that has barely survived a competitive 7-game series. Ā While the latter team is...
By Andrew Mooney Unveiled for the first time this year, the NFLās season-long slate of Thursday night games has thus far produced mixed results, to put it kindly. The series is a not-so-subtle pimping of the NFLās own premium...
By Dan Brown A less technical version of this post appears on Deadspin. Earlier this month, Stoke City striker Michael Owen was quoted by the BBC as stating that diving in the Premier League is “worse than 10 years ago with...
By Andrew Mooney For one small subcommunity of America last night, the man who benefited the most from the countryās decisions at the polls was not Barack Obamaāit was Nate Silver, statistician and creator of the...