By Cameron Dowd Hoards of NFL fans obsess over their teamâs âPower Rankingâ. Every Tuesday, thousands of people flock to the comments section of ESPNâs newest Power Rankings â mostly yelling through their keyboards...
What was the best Super Bowl ever?: Deadspin’s Reuben Fischer-Baum comes up with a definition for “watchability” and applies it to past Super Bowls. Denver is the NBA’s most well-rounded team: Over at...
Visualizing paths to Cooperstown, via FlowingData. Brian Burke studies whether being clutch is a persistent skill in the NFL. Just how little do Super Bowl ads cost major companies? Our own Professor Goldsberry looks at...
by Ben Blatt This is the final post in a series of three on NFL fandom. The first two can be read here and here. To the typical male football fan it may be depressing, but certainly not surprising, to learn that there are...
by Ben Blatt This is post number two in a series of three posts on NFL fandom. The other two can be read here or here. It’s no secret with the NFL scheduled to play regular season games in London until at least 2016 that...
by Ben Blatt Author’s Note: This post was prepared long ago, but Facebook itself coincidentally published a very similar study on Monday. There are many different findings between the two studies however, so I encourage you...
By Nick Jaroszewicz, Anthony Zonfrelli, and Harry Chiel Editor’s Note: This article was featured in Sports Illustrated ahead of Super Bowl 54. You can watch Anthony Zonfrelli break down the math behind Super Bowl Squares...
By Andrew Mooney It wouldnât have been much of a surprise to see the Grousbeck family sharing one or two celebratory fist bumps on September 16, the day the NHL officially locked out its players. With one less horse in the...
Player TOI Usage Charts: Over at Hockey Analytics, David Johnson unveils a new way to visualize Time on Ice in the NHL. The Economics of Sports Insurance: The Economist examines the professional athlete insurance market and the...
By Kevin Meers Last week, Kirk Goldsberry and I published an article on Grantland that effectively visualized how a teamâs Expected Points change with the line of scrimmage, down, and distance. We wanted to highlight and...